"Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense." — Isaac Newton
"Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense."
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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 Ingenious Quotes
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one of 143 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that…
— Ambrose Bierce
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[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we…
— Herman Boerhaave
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
— Arthur Helps
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and…
— William Penn
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
— Walter Savage Landor
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We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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