It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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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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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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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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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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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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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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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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