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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!

Isaac Newton

It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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Beginning God Particle Science
Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Apple Drops Science Wonder
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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Body God Imagination Relative Respect Servant World
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Friendship Truth
What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Business Deep Drops Inspirational Knowledge Learning
If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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Business Deep Inspirational People Stay Tool
A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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Action Body Force Motion Science
All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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Knowledge Play Sea Shell Stone Truth Understand Universe
Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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Determination Experiment Explanation Hypothesis Property
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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Blind Color God Ideas Man Manner Understand Wise
The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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Description Geometry Mathematics Requirement Teaching
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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Always God Substain Substance Virtual Viture
Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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Discover Gravity Thinking Time
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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Explanation Gravity Motion Planet Science
Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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Assign Cause Effect Natural Possible
Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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Cause Effect Natural Possible Science

Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!

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