Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
ISAAC NEWTONI have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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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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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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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 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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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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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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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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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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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 myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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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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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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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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