Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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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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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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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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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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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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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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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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 understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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