The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
ISAAC NEWTONOh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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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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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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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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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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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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Genius is patience.
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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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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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