I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
ISAAC NEWTONPhysics, beware of metaphysics.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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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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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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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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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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