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 NEWTONWe account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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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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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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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.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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