To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
ISAAC NEWTONThe centre of the system of the world is immovable.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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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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.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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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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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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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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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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