If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
ISAAC NEWTONPlato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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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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Genius is patience.
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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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What goes up must come down.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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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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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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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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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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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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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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