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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

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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Assign Cause Explanation Force Gravity Heaven Sea
I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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Cause Explanation Force Intelligence Natural Universe Wisdom
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
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Authencity History Science
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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Always God Substain Substance Virtual Viture
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
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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Absence Convince Existence God Proof Thumb
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Art Error One Liner
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Mathematics Men Old
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
What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Business Deep Drops Inspirational Knowledge Learning
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Art Enemy TAction
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
Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Friendship Prefer Truth
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
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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