Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
ISAAC NEWTONThe great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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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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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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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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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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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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I feign no hypotheses.
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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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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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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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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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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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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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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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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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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