Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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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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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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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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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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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What goes up must come down.
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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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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