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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.

Isaac Newton

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
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.
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Breast God Night Season Thief Time
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
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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Attention Discover Inspirational Patience Success Talent Value
I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Inspirational One Liner Understand
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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Beautiful Intelligence Planet Powerful Proceed Sun System
Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Comfortable Herself Nature One Liner
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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Amount Atheist Chance Distance Earth Happen Heat Light Look Receive Solar System Sun
The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
ISAAC NEWTON

Experiment Inquiry Mathod Proper Property
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
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Friendship Truth
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Further Giant Shoulder Stand
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Art Error One Liner
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.
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Body Force Happen Magnet Nature Quantity Reason
Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Apple Drops Science Wonder
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

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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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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