The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
ISAAC NEWTONTact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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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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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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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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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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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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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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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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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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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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