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" We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. "
Isaac Newton
True
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" Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. "
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" A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. "
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Imagination
Man
" It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change. "
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Motion
Time
True
" As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things. "
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Idea
God
" Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance. "
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" Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so. "
Isaac Newton
Resistance
Always
Motion
" 'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants. "
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Body
God
" What goes up must come down. "
Isaac Newton
Must
Up
Goes
" If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid. "
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Show
Difficult
Cannot
" It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses. "
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True
Great
Matter
" Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers. "
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Laws
Acting
Gravity
" Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest. "
Isaac Newton
Thought
Body
Light
" In the beginning of the year 1665, I found the method of approximating series and the rule for reducing any dignity of any binomial into such a series. "
Isaac Newton
Rule
Year
Found
" Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent. "
Isaac Newton
I Am
Sun
Power
" The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and therefore, it infers a deity. "
Isaac Newton
Power
Opinion
Gravity
" If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. "
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Others
Inspirational
Giants
" The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun. "
Isaac Newton
Gravity
Sun
Equal
" Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments. "
Isaac Newton
Only
Experiments
Far
" We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself. "
Isaac Newton
Dreams
Own
Evidence
" The same thing is to be understood of all bodies, revolved in any orbits. They all endeavour to recede from the centres of their orbits, and were it not for the opposition of a contrary force which restrains them to and detains them in their orbits, which I therefore call Centripetal, would fly off in right lines with a uniform motion. "
Isaac Newton
Uniform
Fly
Lines
" Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast. "
Isaac Newton
Know
Own
Thief
" Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in motion by other forces and their particles to be variously moved in relation to each other and, especially, by the electric force. "
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Motion
System
Sun
" An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force. "
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Force
Motion
Outside
" To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you. "
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You
Man
Age
" My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success. "
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Application
Success
Ordinary
" The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat. "
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Heat
Without
Shining
" The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit. "
Isaac Newton
Off
Earth
Gravity
" I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business. "
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Business
People
Time
" To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. "
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Reaction
Brainy
Action
" The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn. "
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Right
Geometry