To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
ISAAC NEWTONIf 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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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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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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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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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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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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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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