This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
ISAAC NEWTONNothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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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.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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.
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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 have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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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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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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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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