As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
ISAAC NEWTONTo arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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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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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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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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