It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
ISAAC NEWTONNo old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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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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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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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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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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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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