Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
ISAAC NEWTONWhere both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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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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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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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 am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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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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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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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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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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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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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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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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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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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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