I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
ISAAC NEWTONMy 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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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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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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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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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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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.
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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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I feign no hypotheses.
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