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Isaac Newton
English
Mathematician
Born:
Dec 25
,
1642
Died:
Mar 20
,
1727
Always
Any
Bodies
God
Matter
Me
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton
Art
Enemy
Tact
Point
Without
Making
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
Isaac Newton
God
Alone
Me
Other
Would
Proof
Absence
Thumb
Existence
Any
Convince
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac Newton
Truth
Truth Is
Simplicity
Confusion
Multiplicity
Found
Ever
Things
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
Solar
Solar System
Distance
Earth
Sun
System
Atheism
See
Proper
Look
Did
Heat
Happen
Senseless
Right
Amount
Receive
Chance
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Isaac Newton
Action
Every
Equal
Reaction
Always
Opposed
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 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.
Isaac Newton
Truth
Myself
Great
Me
Trust
World
Ocean
Before
Finding
Prettier
Seem
Only
Diverting
Lay
Like
Know
Shell
Boy
Smoother
Been
Undiscovered
Than
May
Ordinary
Whilst
Then
Appear
Seashore
Now
Now And Then
Playing
Pebble
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
Isaac Newton
Truth
My Friend
Aristotle
Greatest
Friend
Plato
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
Isaac Newton
Success
Me
Only
Powers
Ordinary
Application
Brings
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
Truth
Myself
Great
Me
World
Ocean
Before
Finding
Prettier
Seem
Only
Diverting
Lay
Like
Know
Shell
Boy
Smoother
Been
Undiscovered
Than
May
Ordinary
While
Then
Appear
Seashore
Now
Now And Then
Playing
Pebble
God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.
Isaac Newton
Love
God
World
Honor
Made
Parents
Other
Our
Worship
Ourselves
Neighbours
Temperate
Beasts
Brute
Merciful
Him
Masters
Governs
Just
To Love
Us
Even
Peaceable
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
All Things
No Idea
Colors
Idea
Blind
Blind Man
Understands
Which
Manner
Things
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
Other
Frame
Sun
System
About
Could
Divine
Never
Put
Well
Without
Am
Motion
Intelligent
May
Ascribe
Them
Agent
Planets
Reasons
Therefore
Compelled
Gravity
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
Most Beautiful
Sun
System
Only
Could
Counsel
Powerful
Most
Intelligent
Dominion
Being
Proceed
Planets
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
Word
Those
Inspired
Written
Study
Were
Who
Belief
Fundamental
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
Understanding
Imagination
Apprehension
Only
He
True
Understand
False
May
Them
Things
Imagine
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
Isaac Newton
Unless
Object
Remain
Tends
Outside
Along
Force
Motion
Line
Straight
Straight Line
Acted
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.
Isaac Newton
Nature
You
Man
Age
Better
Rest
Difficult
Too
Others
One-Man
Come
Leave
Task
Any
After
Tis
Explain
Little
Much
Certainty
Even
The word 'God' usually signifies 'Lord', but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.
Isaac Newton
God
Spiritual
Word
Every
True
Supreme
Makes
Lord
Dominion
Being
Which
Imaginary
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Isaac Newton
Art
Errors
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.
Isaac Newton
History
Bible
Marks
More
Sure
Authenticity
Any
Profane
Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers.
Isaac Newton
Consideration
Immaterial
Must
Constantly
Laws
Readers
Material
Caused
Left
According
Whether
Agent
Certain
Acting
Gravity
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
Time
Change
Progress
Liable
Absolute
Retarded
True
Accelerate
Motion
Motions
Accurately
May
Whereby
Measured
Thing
The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
Isaac Newton
Without
Shining
Heat
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