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.
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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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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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 myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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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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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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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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Genius is patience.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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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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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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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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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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