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.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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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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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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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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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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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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I feign no hypotheses.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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