What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
ISAAC NEWTONHypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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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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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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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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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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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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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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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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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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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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