Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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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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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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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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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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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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.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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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.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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Genius is patience.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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