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Isaac Newton Quotes

Isaac Newton quotes

English Mathematician December 25, 1642 – March 20, 1727

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Isaac Newton quote: "Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation"
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation Isaac Newton
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
God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne, did not I think it better to pass it by. Isaac Newton
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription. Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton quote: "Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?"
Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world? Isaac Newton
Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing. Isaac Newton
This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book. Isaac Newton
How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts? Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch’d, does it not appear from phnomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...? Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton quote: "Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy"
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton quote: "To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man..."
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton quote: "We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as..."
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton quote: "To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast..."
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton
What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. Isaac Newton
OUR ORDINATION:Sir Isaac Newton, 1642? 1747About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition. Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton quote: "He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he..."
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God. Isaac Newton

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