The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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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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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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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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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.
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