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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

Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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Explanation Leaving
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
Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Friendship Prefer Truth
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
The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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Discover Greatness Ocean Truth
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Art Error One Liner
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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Meditation Offspring One Liner Silence Truth
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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Amount Atheist Chance Distance Earth Happen Heat Light Look Receive Solar System Sun
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
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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Discover Prayer
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
You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Follow Funny One Liner Rule
What goes up must come down.
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Come Deep Life One Liner Reality Science
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

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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