Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
ISAAC NEWTONThe 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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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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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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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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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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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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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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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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