God created everything by number, weight and measure.
ISAAC NEWTONWhence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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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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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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