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.
ISAAC NEWTONWhere both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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All 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.
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