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 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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Genius is patience.
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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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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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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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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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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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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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I feign no hypotheses.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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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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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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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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