Isaac Newton Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
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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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“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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“Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.”
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“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”
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“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
-- Isaac NewtonSource : Isaac Newton (1994). “Trattato sull Apocalisse”
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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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“Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”
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“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.”
-- Isaac NewtonSource : "Human Nature : An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective", Vol. 1, Issues 7-12, p. 47, 1978.
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“Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.”
-- Isaac NewtonSource : "Isaac Newton: Inventor, Scientist, and Teacher". Book by John Hudson Tiner, 1975.
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“He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”
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“I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.”
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“We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.”
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“If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.”
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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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“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”
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“OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.”
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“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
-- Isaac NewtonSource : "Wilson vs Watson: The Blessing of Great Enemies". www.newscientist.com. September 10, 2009.
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“There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.”
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“God created everything by number, weight and measure.”
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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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“If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.”
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“I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.”
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“Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.”
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“It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.”
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“If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.”
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“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”
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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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“The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.”
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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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