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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Isaac Newton

The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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Business Example Inspirational Knowledge 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.
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Description Geometry Mathematics Requirement Teaching
The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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Discover Greatness Ocean Truth
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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Confusion Finding Simplicity 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
I feign no hypotheses.
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Hypothesis Mathematics
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Application Inspirational Ordinary Power Success
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
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
Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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Atheist ManKindness Professor Sense
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
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
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
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
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
If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Doubt Entrepreneur Hard Work Myself Success

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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