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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Clear Constant Inquiry Light Subject
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body God Imagination Relative Respect Servant World
Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
ISAAC NEWTON

Breast God Night Season Thief Time
The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
ISAAC NEWTON

Experiment Inquiry Mathod Proper Property
My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
ISAAC NEWTON

Attempt Defeat Error Establishment Method Purpose Truth Wheat
It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body Force Happen Magnet Nature Quantity Reason
Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
ISAAC NEWTON

Atheist ManKindness Professor Sense
A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
ISAAC NEWTON

Air Atmosphere High Reach Water Weight
A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
ISAAC NEWTON

Action Body Force Motion Science
You have to make the rules, not follow them.
ISAAC NEWTON

Follow Funny One Liner Rule
The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
ISAAC NEWTON

Heat Shine Vapor
Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
ISAAC NEWTON

Friendship Prefer Truth
Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
ISAAC NEWTON

Apple Drops Science Wonder
I feign no hypotheses.
ISAAC NEWTON

Hypothesis Mathematics
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

Explanation Leaving
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
ISAAC NEWTON

Always God Substain Substance Virtual Viture

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