Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
ISAAC NEWTONA body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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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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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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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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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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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Genius is patience.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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