Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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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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What goes up must come down.
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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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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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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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All 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.
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Genius is patience.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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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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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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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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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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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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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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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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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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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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