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.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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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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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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I feign no hypotheses.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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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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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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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.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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