In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
ISAAC NEWTONNo old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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Genius is patience.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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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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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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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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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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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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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.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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What goes up must come down.
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