"Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief……" — Isaac Newton

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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…
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend…
As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as…
Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to…
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to…
Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows…
Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and…
And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that…
He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion…
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of…

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