Genius is patience.
ISAAC NEWTONA cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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I feign no hypotheses.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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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 understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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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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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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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.
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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.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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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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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.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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