Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
ISAAC NEWTONI consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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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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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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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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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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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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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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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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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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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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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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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