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Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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Discover Gravity Thinking Time
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
When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Efficiency Force Inspirational One Liner Science Team Work Unity
Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Body Light Ray Science Shine Susbtance
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
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Account God Philosophy Scripture
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
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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Beginning God Particle Science
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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Explanation Leaving
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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Determination Experiment Explanation Hypothesis Property
If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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Believe Business Positive Result Success Thinking
Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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Diamond Done Inspirational Mischief
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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Confusion Finding Simplicity Truth
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
Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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Hypothesis
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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Age Difficult Explanation Explore Man Task Travel

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