If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
ISAAC NEWTON
Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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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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The 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.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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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.
ISAAC NEWTON