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.
ISAAC NEWTONIt 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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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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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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Genius is patience.
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