Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
ISAAC NEWTONGod is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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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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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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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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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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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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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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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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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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