My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
ISAAC NEWTONTo arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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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.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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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Genius is patience.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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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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