The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
ISAAC NEWTONI can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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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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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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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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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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Genius is patience.
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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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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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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