Isaac Newton Short Quotes

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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

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For Nature is very consonant and conformable to herself.

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Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation.

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It may be so, there is no arguing against facts and experiments.

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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

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Oh, Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest what mischief thou hast done!
To a pet dog who knocked over a candle and set fire to his papers

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From the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.

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Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.

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In default of any other proof, the thumb would convince me of the existence of a God.

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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

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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 quantity of matter is the measure of the same, arising from its density and bulk conjointly.

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Whence are you certain that ye Ancient of Days is Christ? Does Christ anywhere sit upon ye Throne?

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In my Judgment no Lines ought to be admitted into plain Geometry besides the right Line and the Circle.

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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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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

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All the characters of the Passion agree to the year 34; and that is the only year to which they all agree.

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The quantity of motion is the measure of the same, arising from the velocity and quantity of matter conjointly.

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Absolute space, in its own nature, without relation to anything external, remains always similar and immovable.

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No more causes of natural things should be admitted than are both true and sufficient to explain their phenomena.

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It is the glory of geometry that from so few principles, fetched from without, it is able to produce so many things.

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Useful Things, though Mechanical, are justly preferable to useless Speculations in Geometry, as we learn from Pappus.

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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.

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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.

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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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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in law suits as have to do with her.

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Geometrical Speculations have just as much Elegancy as Simplicity, and deserve just so much praise as they can promise Use.

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I have that honour for him as to believe that he wrote good sense; and therefore take that sense to be his which is the best.

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Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.

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