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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

Isaac Newton

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
ISAAC NEWTON

Hypothesis
Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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Infinite Matter Possible Science
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Mathematics Men Old
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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Age Difficult Explanation Explore Man Task Travel
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Creation God Number Weight
When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Efficiency Force Inspirational One Liner Science Team Work Unity
The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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Devotion God Spend Time Worship
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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Body Consider Creature God Member Organ
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.
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Attempt Defeat Error Establishment Method Purpose Truth Wheat
An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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Motion Object Science Stay
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
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Bold Business Discover Greatness Guess Inspirational
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Experiment Number Regard Science Weight
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Friendship Truth
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
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

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