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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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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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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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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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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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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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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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