The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
ISAAC NEWTONTo explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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Centripetal 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.
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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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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Genius is patience.
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