What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
ISAAC NEWTONOpposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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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 proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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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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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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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 am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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