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.
ISAAC NEWTONTo arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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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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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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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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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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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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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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