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

Isaac Newton

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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Attention Discover Inspirational Patience Success Talent Value
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
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
My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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Attempt Defeat Error Establishment Method Purpose Truth Wheat
The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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Business Example Inspirational Knowledge One Liner Understand
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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Dummy Minimalism Nature Please Simplicity
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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Amount Atheist Chance Distance Earth Happen Heat Light Look Receive Solar System Sun
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
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
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
Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Body Light Ray Science Shine Susbtance
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
Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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Hypothesis
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
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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Beautiful Intelligence Planet Powerful Proceed Sun System
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

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