I feign no hypotheses.
ISAAC NEWTONThis most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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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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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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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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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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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.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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