In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
ISAAC NEWTONIt seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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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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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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