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God created everything by number, weight and measure.

Isaac Newton

Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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Brain Cause Fiber Motion Nerve Photograph Vision
I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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Assign Cause Explanation Force Gravity Heaven Sea
Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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Body Change Force Impact Motion Persist State Straight Uniform
A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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Air Atmosphere High Reach Water Weight
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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Distinct Divine Introduce Opinion Philosophy Religion
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
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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Believe God Heart Thinking
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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Clear Constant Inquiry Light Subject
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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Absence Convince Existence God Proof Thumb
The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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Business Example Inspirational Knowledge One Liner Understand
Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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Attraction Distance Force Gravity Particle Proportional Science
The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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Continent Meditation Reading Struggle
Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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Assure Lord Provide Scripture Secure
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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Confusion Finding Simplicity Truth
Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Apple Drops Science Wonder
Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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Hypothesis

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