Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
ISAAC NEWTONThe more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Genius is patience.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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