If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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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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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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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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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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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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