I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
ISAAC NEWTONCentripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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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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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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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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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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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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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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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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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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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.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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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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