The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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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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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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