The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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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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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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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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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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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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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.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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