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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.

Isaac Newton

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
ISAAC NEWTON

Assign Cause Explanation Force Gravity Heaven Sea
God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body God Imagination Relative Respect Servant World
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
ISAAC NEWTON

Absence Convince Existence God Proof Thumb
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
ISAAC NEWTON

Account God Philosophy Scripture
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Determination Experiment Explanation Hypothesis Property
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
ISAAC NEWTON

Agent Effect Insect Instinct Live Powerful Skill Wisdom
Physics, beware of metaphysics.
ISAAC NEWTON
An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
ISAAC NEWTON

Motion Object Science Stay
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
ISAAC NEWTON

Accomplishment Celibacy Consider Greatness Life
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
ISAAC NEWTON

Art Error One Liner
All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
ISAAC NEWTON

Knowledge Play Sea Shell Stone Truth Understand Universe
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
ISAAC NEWTON

Mathematics Men Old
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
ISAAC NEWTON

Law Man Philosophy
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Amount Atheist Chance Distance Earth Happen Heat Light Look Receive Solar System Sun
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
ISAAC NEWTON

Clear Constant Inquiry Light Subject
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Atheist God ManKindness Opposite Practice Profession Professor

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