Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
ISAAC NEWTONAre not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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What goes up must come down.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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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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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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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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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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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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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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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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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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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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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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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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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