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 NEWTONAre not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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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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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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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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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.
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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.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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What goes up must come down.
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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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