To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
ISAAC NEWTONThe moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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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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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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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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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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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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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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My 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.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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