Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

"God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne, did not I think it better to pass it by."
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"God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne, did not I think it better to pass it by."
Isaac Newton The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Published for the Royal Society. VOLUMES 1 through 7
"He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God."
Isaac Newton
"This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being... This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont, to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ or Universal Ruler."
Isaac Newton The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
"Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy"
Isaac Newton
"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion."
Isaac Newton
"“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”"
Isaac Newton
"My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success."
Isaac Newton
"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."
Isaac Newton
"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
Isaac Newton
"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."
Isaac Newton
"Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths."
Isaac Newton
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
Isaac Newton
"Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth."
Isaac Newton
"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
Isaac Newton
"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
Isaac Newton
"The word 'God' usually signifies 'Lord', but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God."
Isaac Newton
"God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts."
Isaac 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 Newton
"In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence."
Isaac Newton
"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."
Isaac Newton
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