Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
ISAAC NEWTONMy powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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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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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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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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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.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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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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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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.
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