Sir Isaac Newton Quotes

• To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

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  If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

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• Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.

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• In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

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• Geometry is that part of universal mechanics which accurately proposes and demonstrates the art of measuring.

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• To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

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• The alteration of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

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• For ever action there is a reaction.

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• Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

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• To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.

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• He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

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• Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

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• Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

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• This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

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• I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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• Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

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• I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

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• I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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• 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.

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• Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

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Sir Isaac Newton (28)

Birth:	25th December, 1642
Death:	20th March, 1727
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Astronomer, Chemist, Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist

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