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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

Isaac Newton

Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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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 full and clear light.
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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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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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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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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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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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 perceives and understands all things.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

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