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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

Isaac Newton

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
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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Deep Done Due Patience Public Service
Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Apple Drops Science Wonder
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Account God Philosophy Scripture
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
The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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Earth Gravity Moon Motion Orbit Science
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
Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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Determination Experiment Explanation Hypothesis Property
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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Belief Fundamental God Religious Study Writing
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
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Art Error One Liner
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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Discover Prayer
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
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
To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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Arrive Contemplation Requirement Simplicity Truth
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
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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Explanation Gravity Motion Planet Science
No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Religion Science
I feign no hypotheses.
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Hypothesis Mathematics
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Bold Business Discover Greatness Guess Inspirational
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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Admit Appearance Cause Explanation Nature Sufficient
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
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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Confusion Finding Simplicity Truth
If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
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Defective Difficult Experiment Invalid Objection Prove Show Theory
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
What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Business Deep Drops Inspirational Knowledge Learning
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

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