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.
ISAAC NEWTONAre not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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Genius is patience.
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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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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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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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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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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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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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