I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
ISAAC NEWTONPictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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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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