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Religion Quotes by Isaac Newton

14 Religion quotes by Isaac Newton

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Even the great physicist had moments of contemplation on the divine. This modest set of fourteen quotations offers a glimpse into Newton’s personal reflections, showing that his curiosity extended beyond the laws of motion to the mysteries of faith.

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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…

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

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

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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.

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“They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.”

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“We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible…

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'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and…

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If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not…

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Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his…

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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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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God…

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Pontus, instituted among all people, as an addition or corollary of devotion towards God, that festival days and assemblies should be celebrated…

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“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and…

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The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must…

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The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their…

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I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin…

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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a…

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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

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Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all…

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God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and…

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I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time

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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

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Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things…

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You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity…

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

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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.

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In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our strength, our…

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