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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

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
ISAAC NEWTON

Absence Convince Existence God Proof Thumb
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
No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Religion Science
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Creation God Number Weight
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
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
I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Inspirational One Liner Understand
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Kindness Nonsense One Liner Poetry
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
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
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
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
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
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Art Error One Liner
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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Law Man Philosophy
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
ISAAC NEWTON

Discover Prayer

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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