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Isaac Newton

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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Belief Fundamental God Religious Study Writing
I feign no hypotheses.
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Hypothesis Mathematics
The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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Heat Shine Vapor
The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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Cause Discover Establishment Explanation Principle Proceed Prove Science Synthesis
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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Law Man Philosophy
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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Clear Constant Inquiry Light Subject
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
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
Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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Atheist ManKindness Professor Sense
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Accomplishment Celibacy Consider Greatness Life
My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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Attempt Defeat Error Establishment Method Purpose Truth Wheat
Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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Breast God Night Season Thief Time
Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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Assure Lord Provide Scripture Secure
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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Beach Children Discover Inspirational Lie Myself Ocean Play Truth
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
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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Distinct Divine Introduce Opinion Philosophy Religion
To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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Arrive Contemplation Requirement Simplicity Truth
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
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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Advance Connection Earth Honour Science
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.
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Devotion God Spend Time Worship
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Bold Business Discover Greatness Guess Inspirational
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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Absence Convince Existence God Proof Thumb
Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Body Light Ray Science Shine Susbtance
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Experiment Number Regard Science Weight
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
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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Blind Color God Ideas Man Manner Understand Wise
We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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Body Consider Creature God Member Organ

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