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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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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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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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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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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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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Genius is patience.
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