Isaac Newton on blind
“As 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.”
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton 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.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton 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 NewtonIsaac Newton 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.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton
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