Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
ISAAC NEWTONTo me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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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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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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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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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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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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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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A 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.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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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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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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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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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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