Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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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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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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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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