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 NEWTONWe are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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What goes up must come down.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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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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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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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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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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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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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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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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