What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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What goes up must come down.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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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 body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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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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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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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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