All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
ISAAC NEWTONWe are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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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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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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If 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.
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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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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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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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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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