Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
ISAAC NEWTONTo me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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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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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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 feign no hypotheses.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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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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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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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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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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