To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
ISAAC NEWTONThe instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Genius is patience.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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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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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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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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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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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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