Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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 me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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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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What goes up must come down.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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We 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.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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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.
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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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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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