My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
ISAAC NEWTONMy principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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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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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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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.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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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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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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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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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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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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