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Men Quotes by Isaac Newton

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Isaac Newton’s occasional remarks on men reveal a scientist’s curiosity about human behavior alongside his famed analytical mind. He ponders the balance of rationality and ambition, offering a modest yet intriguing glimpse into how he perceived the strengths and flaws of his contemporaries.

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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.

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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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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God…

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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…

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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better…

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That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and…

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The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must…

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I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr. Linus's business I will resolutely…

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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the…

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Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law…

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The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets.…

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Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds…

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. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like…

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The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their…

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I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin…

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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

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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…

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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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Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all…

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God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and…

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I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time

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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

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Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things…

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You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity…

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