Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
ISAAC NEWTONNothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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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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If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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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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