If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTONThe 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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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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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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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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What goes up must come down.
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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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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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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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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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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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