You have to make the rules, not follow them.
ISAAC NEWTONA 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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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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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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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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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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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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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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