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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

Isaac Newton

A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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Air Atmosphere High Reach Water 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
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Kindness Nonsense One Liner Poetry
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
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
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
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Art Error One Liner
The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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Heat Shine Vapor
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Body Calculate Funny Heaven Madness Motion People
Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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Consist God Knowledge Love Man Worship
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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Explanation Freedom Inspirational Life Live Positive
Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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Hypothesis
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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Clear Constant Inquiry Light Subject
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Friendship Truth
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Creation God Number Weight
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

Attempt Defeat Error Establishment Method Purpose Truth Wheat

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