The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
ISAAC NEWTONPoetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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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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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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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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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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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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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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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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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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