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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Isaac Newton

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Centre Move Science System World
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
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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False Human Nature Imagination Man Understand
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
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
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Friendship Truth
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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Dummy Minimalism Nature Please Simplicity
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
I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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Cause Explanation Force Intelligence Natural Universe Wisdom
Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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Determination Experiment Explanation Hypothesis Property
Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Comfortable Herself Nature One Liner
Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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Body Force Science
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Body Calculate Funny Heaven Madness Motion People
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Creation God Number Weight
Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Arise Beautiful Nature See World
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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Blind Color God Ideas Man Manner Understand Wise

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