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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.

Isaac Newton

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
ISAAC NEWTON

Agent Effect Insect Instinct Live Powerful Skill Wisdom
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body Change Force Impact Motion Persist State Straight Uniform
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
ISAAC NEWTON

Beautiful Intelligence Planet Powerful Proceed Sun System
Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
ISAAC NEWTON

Apple Drops Science Wonder
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
Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Body Light Ray Science Shine Susbtance
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Application Inspirational Ordinary Power Success
A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
ISAAC NEWTON

Air Atmosphere High Reach Water Weight
Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
ISAAC NEWTON

Atheist ManKindness Professor Sense
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
The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
ISAAC NEWTON

Experiment Inquiry Mathod Proper Property
Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
ISAAC NEWTON

Comfortable Herself Nature One Liner
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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Infinite Matter Possible Science
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
Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
ISAAC NEWTON

Brain Cause Fiber Motion Nerve Photograph Vision
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
ISAAC NEWTON

Mathematics Men Old

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