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.
ISAAC NEWTONThe best way to understanding is a few good examples.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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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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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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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 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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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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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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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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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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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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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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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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