If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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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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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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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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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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