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.
ISAAC NEWTONWhen two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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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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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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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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.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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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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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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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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