To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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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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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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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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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 have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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