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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.

Isaac Newton

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
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
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
I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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Myself Philosophy Slave
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
I feign no hypotheses.
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Hypothesis Mathematics
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
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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Continent Meditation Reading Struggle
Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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Atheist ManKindness Professor Sense
Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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Discover Greatness Ocean Truth
Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Apple Drops Science Wonder
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Further Giant Shoulder Stand
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
No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Religion Science
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

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