Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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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 arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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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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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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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.
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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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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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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