What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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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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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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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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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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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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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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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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Genius is patience.
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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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