Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
ISAAC NEWTONErrors are not in the art but in the artificers.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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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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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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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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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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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.
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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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