I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
ISAAC NEWTONThe 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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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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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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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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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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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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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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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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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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