Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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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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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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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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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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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 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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