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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

Isaac Newton

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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Defective Difficult Experiment Invalid Objection Prove Show Theory
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body Change Force Impact Motion Persist State Straight Uniform
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
ISAAC NEWTON

Bold Business Discover Greatness Guess Inspirational
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
ISAAC NEWTON

Advance Connection Earth Honour Science
Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
ISAAC NEWTON

Atheist ManKindness Professor Sense
Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
ISAAC NEWTON

Brain Cause Fiber Motion Nerve Photograph Vision
The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
ISAAC NEWTON

Discover Greatness Ocean Truth
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Knowledge Play Sea Shell Stone Truth Understand Universe
Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
ISAAC NEWTON

Attraction Distance Force Gravity Particle Proportional Science
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
ISAAC NEWTON

Beginning God Particle Science
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Cause Explanation Force Intelligence Natural Universe Wisdom
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
ISAAC NEWTON

Force Motion Object Science Straight
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
ISAAC NEWTON

Law Man Philosophy
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Amount Atheist Chance Distance Earth Happen Heat Light Look Receive Solar System Sun
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Devotion God Spend Time Worship
No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
ISAAC NEWTON

Religion Science
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
ISAAC NEWTON

Advance Connection Earth Honour Science
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
ISAAC NEWTON

Distinct Divine Introduce Opinion Philosophy Religion
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
ISAAC NEWTON

Mathematics Men Old
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
ISAAC NEWTON

Absence Convince Existence God Proof Thumb
If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
ISAAC NEWTON

Doubt Entrepreneur Hard Work Myself Success
Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
ISAAC NEWTON

Atheist God ManKindness Opposite Practice Profession Professor
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
ISAAC NEWTON

Deep Done Due Patience Public Service
Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
ISAAC NEWTON

External Flow Mathematics Nature
Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
ISAAC NEWTON

Assign Cause Effect Natural Possible
I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
ISAAC NEWTON

Myself Philosophy Slave
The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
ISAAC NEWTON

Centre Move Science System World

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