Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
ISAAC NEWTONMy powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
ISAAC NEWTONPhilosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
ISAAC NEWTONWhat we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
ISAAC NEWTONThe 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.
ISAAC NEWTONNature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
ISAAC NEWTONA 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.
ISAAC NEWTONNature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
ISAAC NEWTONPoetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
ISAAC NEWTONHypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
ISAAC NEWTONAs 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 NEWTONErrors are not in the art but in the artificers.
ISAAC NEWTONTis 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.
ISAAC NEWTONHe who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
ISAAC NEWTONI have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
ISAAC NEWTONI consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
ISAAC NEWTONGod’ 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.
ISAAC NEWTONThe motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
ISAAC NEWTONLet me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
ISAAC NEWTONGodliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
ISAAC NEWTONAtheism 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.
ISAAC NEWTONThere are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
ISAAC NEWTONThe great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
ISAAC NEWTONThe 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 NEWTONAn object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
ISAAC NEWTONTruth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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