Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
ISAAC NEWTONNature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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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.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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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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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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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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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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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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