I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
ISAAC NEWTONTo arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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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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What goes up must come down.
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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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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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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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Genius is patience.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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