Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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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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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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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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I feign no hypotheses.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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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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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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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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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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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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