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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

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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Law Man Philosophy
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
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Friendship Truth
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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Belief Fundamental God Religious Study Writing
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
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
The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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Discover Greatness Ocean Truth
We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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Body Consider Creature God Member Organ
Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Friendship Prefer Truth
I feign no hypotheses.
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Hypothesis Mathematics
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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Beginning God Particle Science
Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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Discover Gravity Thinking Time
God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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Body God Imagination Relative Respect Servant World
You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Follow Funny One Liner Rule
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.
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Breast God Night Season Thief Time
Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Arise Beautiful Nature See World
Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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Brain Cause Fiber Motion Nerve Photograph Vision
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Accomplishment Celibacy Consider Greatness Life
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
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Authencity History Science
Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Comfortable Herself Nature One Liner
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Mathematics Men Old
If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
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Defective Difficult Experiment Invalid Objection Prove Show Theory
The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Centre Move Science System World
Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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Diamond Done Inspirational Mischief
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
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

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