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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.

Isaac Newton

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
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Amount Atheist Chance Distance Earth Happen Heat Light Look Receive Solar System Sun
The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
ISAAC NEWTON

Discover Greatness Ocean Truth
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Explanation Leaving
Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
ISAAC NEWTON

Atheist God ManKindness Opposite Practice Profession Professor
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
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body Force Happen Magnet Nature Quantity Reason
The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
ISAAC NEWTON

Experiment Inquiry Mathod Proper Property
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
ISAAC NEWTON

Mathematics Men Old
The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
ISAAC NEWTON

Earth Gravity Moon Motion Orbit Science
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
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
The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
ISAAC NEWTON

Agent Alone Cause Impression Intelligence Natural Planet Science Spring
Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
ISAAC NEWTON

Assign Cause Effect Natural Possible
I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
ISAAC NEWTON

Inspirational One Liner Understand
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Blind Color God Ideas Man Manner Understand Wise

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