It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
ISAAC NEWTONHypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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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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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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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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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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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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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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