To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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... Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability like the boy on the seashore to fathom the entire ocean in all its depths. He therefore believed that there were not only many things in heaven beyond his philosophy, but plenty on earth as well, and he made it his business to understand for himself what the majority of intelligent men of his time accepted without dispute (to them it was as natural as common sense) the traditional account of the creation.
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Oh Diamond Diamond Thou little knowest the mischief done (Said to a pet dog who knocked over a candle and set fire to his papers
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The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.
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The system of revealed truth which this Book contains is like that of the universe, concealed from common observation yet...the centuries have established its Divine origin.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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