Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
ISAAC NEWTONThe motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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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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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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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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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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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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What goes up must come down.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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