The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
ISAAC NEWTONTruth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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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.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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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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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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The 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.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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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.
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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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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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