Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
ISAAC NEWTONLet me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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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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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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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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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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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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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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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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 do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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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