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.
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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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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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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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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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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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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