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 NEWTONA cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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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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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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What goes up must come down.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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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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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 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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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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