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.
ISAAC NEWTONAtheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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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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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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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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