What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
ISAAC NEWTONGod’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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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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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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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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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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