To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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What goes up must come down.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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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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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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.
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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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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.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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