Genius is patience.
ISAAC NEWTONTo explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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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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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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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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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.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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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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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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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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What goes up must come down.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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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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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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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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