You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
ISAAC NEWTONHypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
ISAAC NEWTONEvery action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
ISAAC NEWTONI see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
ISAAC NEWTONThe 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.
ISAAC NEWTONI understood. I have understood. I do understand.
ISAAC NEWTONTo arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
ISAAC NEWTONIn the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
ISAAC NEWTONTo me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
ISAAC NEWTONThere are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
ISAAC NEWTONGod created everything by number, weight and measure.
ISAAC NEWTONLet me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
ISAAC NEWTONI 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.
ISAAC NEWTONNature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
ISAAC NEWTON