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Isaac Newton marvels at how a tiny needle can stick to amber, showing his love for strange experiments. He insists that he makes no hypotheses and that the same natural effects should have the same causes. He also warns against treating gravity as a given property of matter.

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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.

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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”

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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

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“eorum omnium actiones in se invicem”

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I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

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The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with…

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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.

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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.

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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and…

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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God…

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Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.

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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living…

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Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous…

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Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that belong to…

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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better…

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To derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phænomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of…

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The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and…

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The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within…

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My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by…

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By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies…

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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or…

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You ask me how, with so much study, I manage to retene my health. ... Morpheous is my last companion ; without…

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As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the…

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Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces…

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This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think…

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“God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same…

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Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have…

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I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr. Linus's business I will resolutely…

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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes…

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“In the beginning of the year 1665 I found the Method of approximating series & the Rule for reducing any dignity of…

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“ Kepler 's laws, although not rigidly true, are sufficiently near to the truth to have led to the discovery of the…

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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with…

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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.

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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.

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Against filling the Heavens with fluid Mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great Objection arises from the regular and very lasting…

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He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at…

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Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and…

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We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising;…

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The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their…

I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin…

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a…

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all…

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and…

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things…

You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity…

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.

Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.

In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our strength, our…