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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?

Isaac Newton

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
ISAAC NEWTON

Always God Substain Substance Virtual Viture
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Determination Experiment Explanation Hypothesis Property
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
ISAAC NEWTON

False Human Nature Imagination Man Understand
The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
ISAAC NEWTON

Experiment Inquiry Mathod Proper Property
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

Knowledge Play Sea Shell Stone Truth Understand Universe
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Explanation Leaving
What goes up must come down.
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Come Deep Life One Liner Reality Science
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
ISAAC NEWTON

Law Man Philosophy
I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
ISAAC NEWTON

Myself Philosophy Slave
I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
ISAAC NEWTON

Assign Cause Explanation Force Gravity Heaven Sea
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
ISAAC NEWTON

Discover Prayer
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
ISAAC NEWTON

Deep Done Due Patience Public Service
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Devotion God Spend Time Worship
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
ISAAC NEWTON

Explanation Freedom Inspirational Life Live Positive
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Experiment Number Regard Science Weight
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body God Imagination Relative Respect Servant World

Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?

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