Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
ISAAC NEWTONOh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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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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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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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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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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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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The 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.
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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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