Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
ISAAC NEWTONWe are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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What goes up must come down.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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