If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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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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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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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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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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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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 consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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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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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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