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 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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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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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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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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