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.
ISAAC NEWTONI 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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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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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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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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What goes up must come down.
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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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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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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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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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