I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
ISAAC NEWTONI consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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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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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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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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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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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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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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