The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
ISAAC NEWTONThe instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Genius is patience.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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