To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
ISAAC NEWTONThe Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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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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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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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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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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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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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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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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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