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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Isaac Newton

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
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
When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
ISAAC NEWTON

Efficiency Force Inspirational One Liner Science Team Work Unity
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
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Friendship Truth
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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Beach Children Discover Inspirational Lie Myself Ocean Play Truth
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
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
ISAAC NEWTON

Kindness Nonsense One Liner Poetry
Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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Explanation Leaving
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 proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Experiment Inquiry Mathod Proper Property
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Further Giant Shoulder Stand
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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Blind Color God Ideas Man Manner Understand Wise
Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Friendship Prefer Truth
Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
ISAAC NEWTON

Assure Lord Provide Scripture Secure
It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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Body Force Happen Magnet Nature Quantity Reason

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