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.
ISAAC NEWTONWhere both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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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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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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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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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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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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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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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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