The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
ISAAC NEWTONPlato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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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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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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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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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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