Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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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 instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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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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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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