"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments……" — Isaac Newton

"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."

— Isaac Newton

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137 Quotes by Isaac Newton

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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I…
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend…
As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as…
Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to…
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to…
Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows…
Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and…
And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that…
He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion…
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of…

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I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Auster
I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do… — Dan Aykroyd
Humanity is a failed experiment, but I think I'm God and I'd like to start over. I don't want to… — Roseanne Barr
Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then… — Gary Bauer
We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to… — Glenn Beck
I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot… — Jeff Bezos
The true method of knowledge is experiment. — William Blake
Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend… — Derek Bok
I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival. — John Bolton
I look back at the looks I've had over the years. I'm proud of myself that I had the courage… — Christina Aguilera
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. — Wernher von Braun
I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to… — Alan Alda

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