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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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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
ISAAC NEWTON

Art Enemy TAction
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
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 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
The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
ISAAC NEWTON

Experiment Inquiry Mathod Proper Property
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Assign Cause Explanation Force Gravity Heaven Sea
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
ISAAC NEWTON

Mathematics Men Old
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Blind Color God Ideas Man Manner Understand Wise
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
ISAAC NEWTON

Agent Effect Insect Instinct Live Powerful Skill Wisdom
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
ISAAC NEWTON

Dummy Minimalism Nature Please Simplicity
Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
ISAAC NEWTON

Atheist ManKindness Professor Sense
I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
ISAAC NEWTON

Myself Philosophy Slave
If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
ISAAC NEWTON

Believe Business Positive Result Success Thinking
An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
ISAAC NEWTON

Motion Object Science Stay
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
ISAAC NEWTON

Friendship Truth
If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
ISAAC NEWTON

Doubt Entrepreneur Hard Work Myself Success
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
ISAAC NEWTON

Believe God Heart Thinking
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
What goes up must come down.
ISAAC NEWTON

Come Deep Life One Liner Reality Science
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Attempt Defeat Error Establishment Method Purpose Truth Wheat
What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
ISAAC NEWTON

Business Deep Drops Inspirational Knowledge Learning
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Clear Constant Inquiry Light Subject
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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Age Difficult Explanation Explore Man Task Travel
Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
ISAAC NEWTON

Consist God Knowledge Love Man Worship
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.
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Knowledge Play Sea Shell Stone Truth Understand Universe
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
ISAAC NEWTON

Absence Convince Existence God Proof Thumb
If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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