What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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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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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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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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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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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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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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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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