In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
ISAAC NEWTONTruth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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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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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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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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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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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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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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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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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