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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.

Isaac Newton

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
The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Centre Move Science System World
Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Friendship Prefer Truth
No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Religion Science
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
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
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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Description Geometry Mathematics Requirement Teaching
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
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
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
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
The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Experiment Inquiry Mathod Proper Property
Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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Atheist ManKindness Professor Sense
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
The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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Cause Discover Establishment Explanation Principle Proceed Prove Science Synthesis
The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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Discover Greatness Ocean Truth

I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.

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