Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
ISAAC NEWTONIn the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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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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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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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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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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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.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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