I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
ISAAC NEWTONOpposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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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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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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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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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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