My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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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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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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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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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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