I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
ISAAC NEWTONThere are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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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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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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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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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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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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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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What goes up must come down.
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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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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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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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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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