Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
ISAAC NEWTONAs a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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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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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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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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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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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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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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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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