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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?

Isaac Newton

Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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External Flow Mathematics Nature
Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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Diamond Done Inspirational Mischief
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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Always God Substain Substance Virtual Viture
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Friendship Truth
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Art Error One Liner
Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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Attraction Distance Force Gravity Particle Proportional Science
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Creation God Number Weight
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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Body God Imagination Relative Respect Servant World
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
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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Dummy Minimalism Nature Please Simplicity
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
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Accomplishment Celibacy Consider Greatness Life
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
The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
ISAAC NEWTON

Experiment Inquiry Mathod Proper Property
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
A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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Action Body Force Motion Science

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