Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
ISAAC NEWTONTherefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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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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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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