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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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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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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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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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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Genius is patience.
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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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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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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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