All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
ISAAC NEWTONI have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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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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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Genius is patience.
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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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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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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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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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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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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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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