I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
ISAAC NEWTONGod’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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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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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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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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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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