The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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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If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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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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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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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 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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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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Genius is patience.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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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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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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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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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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