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.
ISAAC NEWTONMy powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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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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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 Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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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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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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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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I feign no hypotheses.
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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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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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