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.
ISAAC NEWTONYet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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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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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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I feign no hypotheses.
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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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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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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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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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