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.
ISAAC NEWTONNo old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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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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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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 created everything by number, weight and measure.
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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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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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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