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 NEWTONNo old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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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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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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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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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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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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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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