The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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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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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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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.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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Genius is patience.
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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.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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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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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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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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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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