Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
ISAAC NEWTONSir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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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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What goes up must come down.
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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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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.
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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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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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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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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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