An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
ISAAC NEWTONTherefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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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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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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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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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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If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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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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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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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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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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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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Genius is patience.
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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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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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