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

Isaac Newton

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Religion 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
Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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Body Change Force Impact Motion Persist State Straight Uniform
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
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
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 I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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Deep Done Due Patience Public Service
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Friendship Truth
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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Beautiful Intelligence Planet Powerful Proceed Sun System
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Further Giant Shoulder Stand
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
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
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Mathematics Men Old
Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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Assign Cause Effect Natural Possible
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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Distinct Divine Introduce Opinion Philosophy Religion

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