Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
ISAAC NEWTONMy 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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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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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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