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.
ISAAC NEWTONAll 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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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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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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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Genius is patience.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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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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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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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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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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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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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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