I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
ISAAC NEWTONReligion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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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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Genius is patience.
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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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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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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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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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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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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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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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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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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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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