Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
ISAAC NEWTONPoetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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I feign no hypotheses.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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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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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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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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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