01c. 1684 ADThe smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
02c. 1684 ADReligion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
03c. 1684 ADGravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
04c. 1684 ADAtheism 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 / quote ↗
05c. 1684 ADIn the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
06c. 1684 ADI 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 / quote ↗
07c. 1684 ADGod 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 / quote ↗
08c. 1684 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
09c. 1684 ADTruth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
10c. 1684 ADI 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 / quote ↗
11c. 1684 ADFidelity 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 / quote ↗
12c. 1684 ADA 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 / quote ↗
