To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
ISAAC NEWTONEvery body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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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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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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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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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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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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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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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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