To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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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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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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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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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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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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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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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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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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