The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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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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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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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 old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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