If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
ISAAC NEWTONIt seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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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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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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Genius is patience.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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