What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
ISAAC NEWTONTo myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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Genius is patience.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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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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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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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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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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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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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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