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.
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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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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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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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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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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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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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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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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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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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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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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