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If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

Isaac Newton

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
Genius is patience.
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Genius Inspirational One Liner Patience
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
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 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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Earth Gravity Moon Motion Orbit Science
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
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
Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Apple Drops Science Wonder
If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Doubt Entrepreneur Hard Work Myself Success
Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Comfortable Herself Nature One Liner
Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Arise Beautiful Nature See World
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Application Inspirational Ordinary Power Success
Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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Body Force Science
I feign no hypotheses.
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Hypothesis Mathematics
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Action Deep Inspirational Opposite Reaction Science
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
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
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
Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Friendship Prefer Truth
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 non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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Hypothesis
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Mathematics Men Old
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Accomplishment Celibacy Consider Greatness Life
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Art Enemy TAction
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
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
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

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

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