No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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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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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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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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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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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.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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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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I feign no hypotheses.
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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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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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