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.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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Genius is patience.
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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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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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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