Inspirational Quotes on Newton

“What goes up must come down.”

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

“Lo que sabemos es una gota de agua; lo que ignoramos es un océano.”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident. { .}”

“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. and are examples of the deep sagacity which may be acquired by long habits of thinking and study.”

“… 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. { (1687)}”