We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
ISAAC NEWTONI 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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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.
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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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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.
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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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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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