I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
ISAAC NEWTONAll knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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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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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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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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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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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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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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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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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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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