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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.

Isaac Newton

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
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.
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Clear Constant Inquiry Light Subject
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
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Account God Philosophy Scripture
You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Follow Funny One Liner Rule
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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Agent Effect Insect Instinct Live Powerful Skill Wisdom
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
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
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Friendship Truth
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
Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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External Flow Mathematics Nature
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
I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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Myself Philosophy Slave
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Action Deep Inspirational Opposite Reaction Science
I feign no hypotheses.
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Hypothesis Mathematics
The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Centre Move Science System World

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