Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
ISAAC NEWTONThe great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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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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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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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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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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What goes up must come down.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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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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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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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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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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If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
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