I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Genius is patience.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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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