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.
ISAAC NEWTONPhilosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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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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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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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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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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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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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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