Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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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What goes up must come down.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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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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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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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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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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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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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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