To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
ISAAC NEWTONWhat we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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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.
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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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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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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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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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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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.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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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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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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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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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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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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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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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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