Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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What goes up must come down.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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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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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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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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Tis 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.
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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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We 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.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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