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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

Isaac Newton

Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Body Light Ray Science Shine Susbtance
I feign no hypotheses.
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Hypothesis Mathematics
Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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Discover Gravity Thinking Time
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
If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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Business Deep Inspirational People Stay Tool
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
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Application Inspirational Ordinary Power Success
I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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Myself Philosophy Slave
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.
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Knowledge Play Sea Shell Stone Truth Understand Universe
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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Believe God Heart Thinking
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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Confusion Finding Simplicity Truth
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Experiment Number Regard Science Weight
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 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
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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Explanation Freedom Inspirational Life Live Positive
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.
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Body God Imagination Relative Respect Servant World
The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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Heat Shine Vapor
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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Explanation Gravity Motion Planet Science
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Action Deep Inspirational Opposite Reaction Science
Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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Body Change Force Impact Motion Persist State Straight Uniform
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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Beautiful Intelligence Planet Powerful Proceed Sun System
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
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
Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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Assign Cause Effect Natural Possible
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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Discover Prayer
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Accomplishment Celibacy Consider Greatness Life
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

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

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