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

Isaac Newton

Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
ISAAC NEWTON

Comfortable Herself Nature One Liner
Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
ISAAC NEWTON

Friendship Prefer Truth
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
ISAAC NEWTON

Account God Philosophy Scripture
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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Dummy Minimalism Nature Please Simplicity
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
ISAAC NEWTON

Deep Done Due Patience Public Service
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
ISAAC NEWTON

Always God Substain Substance Virtual Viture
I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
ISAAC NEWTON

Myself Philosophy Slave
An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
ISAAC NEWTON

Motion Object Science Stay
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Explanation Leaving
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
ISAAC NEWTON

Bold Business Discover Greatness Guess Inspirational
To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
ISAAC NEWTON

Arrive Contemplation Requirement Simplicity Truth
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

Clear Constant Inquiry Light Subject
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Continent Meditation Reading Struggle
The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
ISAAC NEWTON

Cause Discover Establishment Explanation Principle Proceed Prove Science Synthesis
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Devotion God Spend Time Worship
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
ISAAC NEWTON

Art Enemy TAction

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