If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
ISAAC NEWTONSir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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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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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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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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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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