An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
ISAAC NEWTONThe 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Genius is patience.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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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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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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