To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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 explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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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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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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What goes up must come down.
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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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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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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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