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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

Isaac Newton

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
ISAAC NEWTON

Believe God Heart Thinking
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
ISAAC NEWTON

Beginning God Particle Science
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Kindness Nonsense One Liner Poetry
Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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Hypothesis
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
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 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
Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
ISAAC NEWTON

Assign Cause Effect Natural Possible
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
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
ISAAC NEWTON

Friendship Truth
A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
ISAAC NEWTON

Action Body Force Motion Science
If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
ISAAC NEWTON

Doubt Entrepreneur Hard Work Myself Success
Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
ISAAC NEWTON

Cause Effect Natural Possible Science
If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
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Defective Difficult Experiment Invalid Objection Prove Show Theory
Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
ISAAC NEWTON

Consist God Knowledge Love Man Worship
The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
ISAAC NEWTON

Discover Greatness Ocean Truth

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