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.
ISAAC NEWTONWe 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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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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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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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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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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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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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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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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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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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