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 NEWTONI see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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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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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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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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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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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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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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