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.
ISAAC NEWTONIt seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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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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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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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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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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