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 NEWTONAll my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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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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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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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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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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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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 motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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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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