All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
ISAAC NEWTONAn object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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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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I feign no hypotheses.
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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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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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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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