Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
ISAAC NEWTONThe Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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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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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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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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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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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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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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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