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 NEWTONIn the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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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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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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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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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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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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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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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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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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