I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
ISAAC NEWTONGenius is patience.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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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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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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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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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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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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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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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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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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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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