black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

Isaac Newton

My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
ISAAC NEWTON

Attempt Defeat Error Establishment Method Purpose Truth Wheat
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
ISAAC NEWTON

False Human Nature Imagination Man Understand
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body Calculate Funny Heaven Madness Motion People
An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
ISAAC NEWTON

Motion Object Science Stay
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body God Imagination Relative Respect Servant World
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Defective Difficult Experiment Invalid Objection Prove Show Theory
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
ISAAC NEWTON

Art Error One Liner
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Explanation Leaving
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Continent Meditation Reading Struggle
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
ISAAC NEWTON

Creation God Number Weight
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Breast God Night Season Thief Time
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
ISAAC NEWTON

Attention Discover Inspirational Patience Success Talent Value
What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
ISAAC NEWTON

Business Deep Drops Inspirational Knowledge Learning
Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
ISAAC NEWTON

Arise Beautiful Nature See World
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
ISAAC NEWTON

Explanation Freedom Inspirational Life Live Positive
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
ISAAC NEWTON

Dummy Minimalism Nature Please Simplicity

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Isaac Newton Quotes