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.
ISAAC NEWTONPictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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What goes up must come down.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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