Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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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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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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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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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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 done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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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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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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