The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
ISAAC NEWTONGravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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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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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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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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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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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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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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