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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.

Isaac Newton

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
Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Friendship Prefer Truth
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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Distinct Divine Introduce Opinion Philosophy Religion
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
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Friendship Truth
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
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
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.
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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.
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False Human Nature Imagination Man Understand
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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Agent Effect Insect Instinct Live Powerful Skill Wisdom
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.
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Devotion God Spend Time Worship
Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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Atheist ManKindness Professor Sense
An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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Motion Object Science Stay
Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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Brain Cause Fiber Motion Nerve Photograph Vision
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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Attention Discover Inspirational Patience Success Talent Value
The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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Business Example Inspirational Knowledge One Liner Understand

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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