Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
ISAAC NEWTONA body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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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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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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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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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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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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