God created everything by number, weight and measure.
ISAAC NEWTONPhysics, beware of metaphysics.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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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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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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