Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
ISAAC NEWTONAll my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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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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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Genius is patience.
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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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I feign no hypotheses.
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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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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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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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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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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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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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