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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.
...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me
Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
All the characters of the Passion agree to the year 34; and that is the only year to which they all agree.
An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.
The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.
Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time
A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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.
Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.
When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.
I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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.
Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
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.
The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
In the beginning of the year 1665, I found the method of approximating series and the rule for reducing any dignity of any binomial into such a series.