He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
ISAAC NEWTONWhence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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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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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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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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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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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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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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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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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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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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