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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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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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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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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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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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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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I feign no hypotheses.
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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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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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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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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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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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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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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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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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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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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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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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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