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50 Mathematician. Scientist Quotes

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

Motion People Calculate Can
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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.

Atheism Look System Solar
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We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Build Too Many Walls
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Calculate Motion Heavenly Bodies
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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.

Man May Imagine False
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Science Higher Been Source
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Further Giants Others Seen
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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.

Christ God God Hath Hath
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To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Action Always Equal Every
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Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Aristotle Friend Greatest My Friend
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The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whether of one single body or of a whole system of bodies, is always to be estimated from the motion of the center of gravity.

Always Bodies Body Center
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Any Done Due Patient
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Art Enemy Making Point
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Art Errors Not But
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

Experiments Numbers Regarded Weight
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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.

Appear Been Before Boy
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Admit Appearances Both Causes
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

Acted Along Force Line
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What goes up must come down.
Come Down Goes Must
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

Absence Alone Any Convince
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
Application Brings Me Only
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

Any Authenticity Bible History
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Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Confusion Ever Found Multiplicity
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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.

After Age Any Better
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Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

Absolute Always Anything Bodies
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
Bodies Light Rays Shining
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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.

All Things Blind Blind Man Colors
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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

Also Always Cannot Everywhere
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'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

Body Deity Dominion Fancy
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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.

According Acting Agent Caused
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I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business.

About Away Business Every
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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.

Assigned Cause Explained Force
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If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.

Air Deprived Earth Force
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If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

About Always Another Any
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If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

Cannot Defects Difficult Experiments
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In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur by which they may either be made more accurate or liable to exceptions.

Accurate Accurately Any Contrary
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In the beginning of the year 1665, I found the method of approximating series and the rule for reducing any dignity of any binomial into such a series.

Any Beginning Dignity Found
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Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

Absolutely Another Any Certain
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It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

Apparent Because Bodies Come
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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.

Bodies Case Depend Directed
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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.

Absolute Accelerate Accurately Change
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Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in motion by other forces and their particles to be variously moved in relation to each other and, especially, by the electric force.

Also Bodies Each Electric
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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

Cannot Divided Finite Infinite
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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

Distinct Divine Introduce Nor
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Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

Always Bodies Commonly Conceived
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The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name.

Accurately Ancient Arts Belong
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The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

Best Diligently Establishing Experiments
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
Centre System World Immovable
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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

Belongs Circles Description Does
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The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and therefore, it infers a deity.

Being Deity First Gravity
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