In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
ISAAC NEWTONAll 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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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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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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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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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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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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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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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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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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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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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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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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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