Quotes

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

“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.”

“And to every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction.”

“Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.”

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”

“A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial Observion: and for this end a good Jewel watch may suffice till a better sort of Watch can be found out. But when the Longitude at sea is once lost, it cannot be found again by any watch.”

“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.”

“A Vulgar Mechanic can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub.”

About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.”

“All the characters of the Passion agree to the year 34; and that is the only year to which they all agree.”

“As in Mathematics, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. This Analysis consists in making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions, but such as are taken from Experiments, or other certain Truths. For Hypotheses are not to be regarded in experimental Philosophy.”

“Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where,

Impressum

Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Texte: Daniel Coenn
Bildmaterialien: Daniel Coenn
Lektorat: Blago Kirov
Übersetzung: Raia Iotova
Tag der Veröffentlichung: 14.04.2014
ISBN: 978-3-7309-9990-5

Alle Rechte vorbehalten