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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

~Isaac Newton

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Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

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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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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.

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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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All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the 'Lord God.'

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

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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.

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The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?

~Isaac Newton

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Mathematician

Born: December 25th, 1642

Died: March 20th, 1727

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