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1. "… for it is very probable, that the motion of gravity worketh weakly, both far from the earth, and also within the earth: the former because the appetite of union of dense bodies with the earth, in respect of the distance, is more dull: the latter, because the body hath in part attained its nature when it is some depth in the earth.{Foreshadowing Isaac Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation (1687)}" ~ Isaac Newton
2. "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
3. "As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. This Analysis consists in making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions, but such as are taken from Experiments, or other certain Truths. For Hypotheses are not to be regarded in experimental Philosophy." ~ Isaac Newton
4. "No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess." ~ Isaac Newton
5. "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
6. "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
7. "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
8. "Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things." ~ Isaac Newton
9. "Human nature with all its infirmities and deprivation is still capable of great things. It is capable of attaining to degrees of wisdom and goodness, which we have reason to believe, appear as respectable in the estimation of superior intelligences. Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute. The virtues and powers to which men may be trained, by early education and constant discipline, are truly sublime and astonishing. Isaac Newton and John Locke are examples of the deep sagacity which may be acquired by long habits of thinking and study." ~ Isaac Newton
10. "A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub.(from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)" ~ Isaac Newton
11. "What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean." ~ Isaac Newton
12. "Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts." ~ Isaac Newton
13. "To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age" ~ Isaac Newton
14. "Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy" ~ Isaac Newton
15. "and to every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction" ~ Isaac Newton
16. "If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent" ~ Isaac Newton
17. "Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?" ~ Isaac Newton
18. "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
19. "eorum omnium actiones in se invicem" ~ Isaac Newton
20. "Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion." ~ Isaac Newton
21. "Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that, at his birth, he might have found room in a quart mug. He died on March the 20th, 1727, after more than eighty-four years of more than average bodily health and vigour; it is a proper pendant to the story of the quart mug to state that he never lost more than one of his second teeth." ~ Isaac Newton
22. "We build too many walls and not enough bridges." ~ Isaac Newton
23. "For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline." ~ Isaac Newton
24. "Los hombres construimos demasiados muros y no suficientes puentes." ~ Isaac Newton
25. "They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life." ~ Isaac Newton
26. "Deus é capaz de criar partículas de matéria de diversos tamanhos e formas...e talvez de diferentes densidades e forças e, portanto, de variar as leis da natureza e fazer mundos de diversos tipos em várias partes do universo. Pelo menos não vejo contradição alguma em tudo isso." ~ Isaac Newton
27. "Wenn ich weiter sehen konnte, so deshalb, weil ich auf den Schultern von Riesen stand." ~ Isaac Newton
28. "Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide." ~ Isaac Newton
29. "He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God." ~ Isaac Newton
30. "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 phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?" ~ Isaac Newton
31. "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people." ~ Isaac Newton
32. "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." ~ Isaac Newton
33. "Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy." ~ Isaac Newton
34. "To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction." ~ Isaac Newton
35. "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
36. "I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself 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
37. "Errors are not in the art but in the artificers." ~ Isaac Newton
38. "To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science." ~ Isaac Newton
39. "If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought." ~ Isaac Newton
40. "It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded." ~ Isaac Newton

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The cynic school was a thing of antiquity, but every subsequent age has had its lonely adherents: to satirize the very thing you depend on, to offer a way out but crudely and unsatisfactorily, too myopic with frustration and intoxicated by rebellion to admit there is no way out. Addicted to futility, you live in your barrels and keep up your search for the ‘good' man, laughing all the while. A noncontagious laughter that loops back upon itself; your only pleasure an insincerity. And yet you, like the stoics, propose to live according to nature? Not so, ‘friends!' Your mockery can't escape the interpersonal – and so you do live according to what is natural, just not in the way you thought. Deeply aware of status, you turn your scorn into a virtue, applying it more even than the dozing patrician, smearing it over yourself like cow-dung. If everyone lived in barrels you would smash yours and take to a house, decrying ‘the rolling estate."
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