Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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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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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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 centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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