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.
ISAAC NEWTONI can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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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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God’ 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.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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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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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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