"Let me think... I wonder if an anvil……" — Isaac Newton
"Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?"
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Isaac Newton
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137 Quotes by Isaac Newton
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I…
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend…
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As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as…
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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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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to…
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As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to…
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Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows…
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Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and…
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And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that…
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He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion…
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of…
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More Anvil Quotes
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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
— Aeschylus
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You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style…
— Steve Rushin
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Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into…
— Anne Bradstreet
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One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
— Emile Zola
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We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!
— Charles Schumer
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Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.
— Billy Casper
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As iron is fashioned by fire and on the anvil, so in the fire of suffering and under the weight…
— Madeleine Sophie Barat
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Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an…
— J. G. Holland
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