We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
ISAAC NEWTONMy powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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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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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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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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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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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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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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Genius is patience.
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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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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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