This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
ISAAC NEWTONAs 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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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 keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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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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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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What goes up must come down.
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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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