If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
ISAAC NEWTONWe are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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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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