If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTONNo sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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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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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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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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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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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 moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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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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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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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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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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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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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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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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