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 NEWTONIf I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Genius is patience.
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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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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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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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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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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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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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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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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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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 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.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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