Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
ISAAC NEWTONHe who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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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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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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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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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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