Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
ISAAC NEWTONThe best way to understanding is a few good examples.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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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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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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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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.
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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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