Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
ISAAC NEWTONA man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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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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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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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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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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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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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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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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