I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
ISAAC NEWTONYou have to make the rules, not follow them.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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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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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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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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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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