I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
ISAAC NEWTONWe are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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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 understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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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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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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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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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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