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.
ISAAC NEWTONWhat goes up must come down.
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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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
ISAAC NEWTONYou have to make the rules, not follow them.
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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
ISAAC NEWTONGod’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
ISAAC NEWTONHypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
ISAAC NEWTONIn the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
ISAAC NEWTONOpposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
ISAAC NEWTONNo old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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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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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
ISAAC NEWTONWe 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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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
ISAAC NEWTONNo great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
ISAAC NEWTONNature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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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.
ISAAC NEWTONChrist 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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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
ISAAC NEWTONYet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
ISAAC NEWTONTo arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
ISAAC NEWTONThe proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
ISAAC NEWTONI see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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