If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTONPoetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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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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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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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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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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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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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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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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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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