The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.Isaac Newton
That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.Isaac Newton
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.Isaac Newton
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.George Orwell
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.George Orwell
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.George Orwell
