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.
ISAAC NEWTONWhence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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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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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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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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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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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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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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