In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
ISAAC NEWTONGod’ 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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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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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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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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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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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 have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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