The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
ISAAC NEWTONTo arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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My 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.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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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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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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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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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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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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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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