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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.

Isaac Newton

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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Believe God Heart Thinking
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
All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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Knowledge Play Sea Shell Stone Truth Understand Universe
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
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
The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Centre Move Science System World
If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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Believe Business Positive Result Success Thinking
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
Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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Atheist God ManKindness Opposite Practice Profession Professor
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Further Giant Shoulder Stand
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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Advance Connection Earth Honour Science
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Friendship Truth
The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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Continent Meditation Reading Struggle
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
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
Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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Discover Gravity Thinking Time

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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