Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
ISAAC NEWTONI do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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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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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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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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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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