It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
ISAAC NEWTONTruth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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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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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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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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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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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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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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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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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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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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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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