If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
ISAAC NEWTONAn object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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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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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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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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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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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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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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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.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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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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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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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