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.
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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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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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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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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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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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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Genius is patience.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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