To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
ISAAC NEWTONLet me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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What goes up must come down.
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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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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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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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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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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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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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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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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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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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Genius is patience.
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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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