Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
ISAAC NEWTONThe Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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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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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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What goes up must come down.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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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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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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