My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
ISAAC NEWTONPlato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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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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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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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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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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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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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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