If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
ISAAC NEWTONTruth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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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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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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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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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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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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