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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

Isaac Newton

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
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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Admit Appearance Cause Explanation Nature Sufficient
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
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
A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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Action Body Force Motion Science
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
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Mathematics Men Old
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
Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Authencity History Science
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
Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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Cause Effect Natural Possible Science
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
Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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External Flow Mathematics Nature
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
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

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

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