The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
ISAAC NEWTONWhen two forces unite, their efficiency double.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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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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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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