Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
ISAAC NEWTONTo arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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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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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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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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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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