Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
ISAAC NEWTONPoetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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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.
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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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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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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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