The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
ISAAC NEWTONThe great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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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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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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