If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
ISAAC NEWTONGravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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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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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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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 cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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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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