Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
ISAAC NEWTONMy powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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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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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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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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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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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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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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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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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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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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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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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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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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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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