If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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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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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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I 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.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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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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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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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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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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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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