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.
ISAAC NEWTONTo arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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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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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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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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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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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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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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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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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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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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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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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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