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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.

Isaac Newton

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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Age Difficult Explanation Explore Man Task Travel
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
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Further Giant Shoulder Stand
God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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Body God Imagination Relative Respect Servant World
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
Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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Attraction Distance Force Gravity Particle Proportional Science
Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Body Light Ray Science Shine Susbtance
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
Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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Assure Lord Provide Scripture Secure
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
If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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Business Deep Inspirational People Stay Tool
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 motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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Agent Alone Cause Impression Intelligence Natural Planet Science Spring
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Authencity History Science
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
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Art Enemy TAction

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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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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