If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
ISAAC NEWTONThe Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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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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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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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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