No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
ISAAC NEWTONTo myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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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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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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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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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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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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