I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
ISAAC NEWTONPlato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Genius is patience.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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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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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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