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.
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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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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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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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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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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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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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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