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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.

Isaac Newton

The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
ISAAC NEWTON

Devotion God Spend Time Worship
If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
ISAAC NEWTON

Defective Difficult Experiment Invalid Objection Prove Show Theory
Genius is patience.
ISAAC NEWTON

Genius Inspirational One Liner Patience
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
ISAAC NEWTON

Law Man Philosophy
Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
ISAAC NEWTON

Friendship Prefer Truth
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Assign Cause Explanation Force Gravity Heaven Sea
Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
ISAAC NEWTON

Body Light Ray Science Shine Susbtance
If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
ISAAC NEWTON

Business Deep Inspirational People Stay Tool
Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
ISAAC NEWTON

Breast God Night Season Thief Time
Physics, beware of metaphysics.
ISAAC NEWTON
I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
ISAAC NEWTON

Cause Explanation Force Intelligence Natural Universe Wisdom
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
ISAAC NEWTON

Explanation Gravity Motion Planet Science
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Attempt Defeat Error Establishment Method Purpose Truth Wheat
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

False Human Nature Imagination Man Understand
What goes up must come down.
ISAAC NEWTON

Come Deep Life One Liner Reality Science
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
ISAAC NEWTON

Accomplishment Celibacy Consider Greatness Life

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