I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Genius is patience.
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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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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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