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.
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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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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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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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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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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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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