Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
ISAAC NEWTONNo old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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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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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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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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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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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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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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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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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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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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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