"My Design in this Book is not to……" — Isaac Newton
"My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which, I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms."
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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…
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend…
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As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as…
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to…
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As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to…
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Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows…
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Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and…
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And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that…
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He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion…
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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 tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
— Henry Adams
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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses…
— Francis Bacon
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If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may…
— George Polya
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The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of…
— Kurt Gödel
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I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of…
— David Hilbert
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If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his…
— Saddam Hussein
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Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws…
— Emile M. Cioran
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It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and…
— Jerome Hines
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You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above…
— Stephen King
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Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed…
— J I Packer
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