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English
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Mathematician
December 25
, 1642 -
March 20
, 1727
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We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Isaac Newton
Walls
,
Enough
,
Bridges
,
Build
,
Many
,
Too
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
Inspirational
,
Others
,
Standing
,
Giants
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Isaac Newton
Action
,
Brainy
,
Equal
,
Reaction
,
Always
Genius is patience.
Isaac Newton
Patience
,
Genius
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac Newton
Truth
,
Truth Is
,
Simplicity
,
Confusion
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
Great
,
Truth
,
Myself
,
Ocean
,
Me
,
World
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
Isaac Newton
Success
,
Me
,
Ordinary
,
Only
,
Application
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
Isaac Newton
God
,
Alone
,
Me
,
Absence
,
Existence
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Isaac Newton
People
,
I Can
,
Madness
,
Motion
,
Heavenly
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton
Art
,
Enemy
,
Without
,
Point
,
Making
,
Tact
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Isaac Newton
Patience
,
Service
,
Thought
,
Done
,
Public
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 Newton
Light
,
Sun
,
Chance
,
Earth
,
Distance
,
See
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
Isaac Newton
Friend
,
Truth
,
Greatest
,
My Friend
What goes up must come down.
Isaac Newton
Down
,
Up
,
Come
,
Must
,
Goes
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Isaac Newton
Art
,
Errors
All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the 'Lord God.'
Isaac Newton
Life
,
God
,
Universe
,
Happen
,
Only
,
Order
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
Isaac Newton
God
,
Virtue
,
Same
,
Always
,
Without
,
Only
Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.
Isaac Newton
Power
,
I Am
,
Sun
,
Frame
,
Gravity
,
Never
Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.
Isaac Newton
Faith
,
King
,
Men
,
Law
,
Free
,
Obedience
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
Isaac Newton
Man
,
Imagination
,
Understanding
,
True
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
Isaac Newton
God
,
Man
,
Colors
,
Blind
,
Things
,
Idea
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
Isaac Newton
Numbers
,
Experiments
,
Weight
,
Regarded
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Isaac Newton
Beautiful
,
Sun
,
Powerful
,
Intelligent
It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
Isaac Newton
Nature
,
Matter
,
Depend
,
Quantity
,
Forces
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
Isaac Newton
God
,
Daily
,
Bible
,
Belief
,
Study
,
Who
It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change.
Isaac Newton
Change
,
Time
,
Progress
,
True
,
May
,
Thing
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