In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
ISAAC NEWTONThe great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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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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Genius is patience.
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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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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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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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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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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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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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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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