Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
ISAAC NEWTONAs 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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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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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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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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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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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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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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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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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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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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