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 NEWTONReligion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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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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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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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