I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
ISAAC NEWTONThe best way to understanding is a few good examples.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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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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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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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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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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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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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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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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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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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