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.
ISAAC NEWTONWhere both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
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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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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 feign no hypotheses.
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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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