What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
ISAAC NEWTONThe centre of the system of the world is immovable.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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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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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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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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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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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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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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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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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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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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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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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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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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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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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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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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