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Isaac Newton Quote - 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.

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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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
ISAAC NEWTON

Determination Experiment Explanation Hypothesis Property
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body God Imagination Relative Respect Servant World
Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
ISAAC NEWTON

Explanation Leaving
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
ISAAC NEWTON

Accomplishment Celibacy Consider Greatness Life
The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
ISAAC NEWTON

Discover Greatness Ocean Truth
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
ISAAC NEWTON

Always God Substain Substance Virtual Viture
Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
ISAAC NEWTON

Friendship Prefer Truth
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
ISAAC NEWTON

Friendship Truth
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
ISAAC NEWTON

Distinct Divine Introduce Opinion Philosophy Religion
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body Calculate Funny Heaven Madness Motion People
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
ISAAC NEWTON

Admit Appearance Cause Explanation Nature Sufficient
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body Change Force Impact Motion Persist State Straight Uniform
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
ISAAC NEWTON

Explanation Freedom Inspirational Life Live Positive
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
ISAAC NEWTON

Beach Children Discover Inspirational Lie Myself Ocean Play Truth
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
ISAAC NEWTON

Age Difficult Explanation Explore Man Task Travel
The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
ISAAC NEWTON

Centre Move Science System World

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