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

Isaac Newton

Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
ISAAC NEWTON

Breast God Night Season Thief Time
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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Attention Discover Inspirational Patience Success Talent Value
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
ISAAC NEWTON

Meditation Offspring One Liner Silence Truth
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Application Inspirational Ordinary Power Success
The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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Heat Shine Vapor
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
ISAAC NEWTON

Friendship Truth
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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False Human Nature Imagination Man Understand
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
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
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTON

Further Giant Shoulder Stand
Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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Hypothesis
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
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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Advance Connection Earth Honour Science
Physics, beware of metaphysics.
ISAAC NEWTON
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
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

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