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.
ISAAC NEWTONCentripetal 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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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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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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What goes up must come down.
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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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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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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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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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I feign no hypotheses.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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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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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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