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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?

Isaac Newton

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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Defective Difficult Experiment Invalid Objection Prove Show Theory
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body God Imagination Relative Respect Servant World
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
ISAAC NEWTON

Force Motion Object Science Straight
Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
ISAAC NEWTON

Body Light Ray Science Shine Susbtance
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Attraction Distance Force Gravity Particle Proportional Science
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
ISAAC NEWTON

Deep Done Due Patience Public Service
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
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
ISAAC NEWTON

Admit Appearance Cause Explanation Nature Sufficient
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Assign Cause Explanation Force Gravity Heaven Sea
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body Consider Creature God Member Organ
When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
ISAAC NEWTON

Efficiency Force Inspirational One Liner Science Team Work Unity
All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
ISAAC NEWTON

Knowledge Play Sea Shell Stone Truth Understand Universe
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Determination Experiment Explanation Hypothesis Property
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
ISAAC NEWTON

Believe God Heart Thinking
I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
ISAAC NEWTON

Inspirational One Liner Understand
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Description Geometry Mathematics Requirement Teaching

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