A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
ISAAC NEWTONIt is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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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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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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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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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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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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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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