Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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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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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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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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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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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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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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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.
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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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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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