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.
ISAAC NEWTONTo me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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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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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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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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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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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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