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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

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
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
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
What goes up must come down.
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Come Deep Life One Liner Reality Science
You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Follow Funny One Liner Rule
Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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Consist God Knowledge Love Man Worship
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Body Calculate Funny Heaven Madness Motion People
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
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
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Art Error One Liner
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
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
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
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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Atheist God ManKindness Opposite Practice Profession Professor
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
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
What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Business Deep Drops Inspirational Knowledge Learning
Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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Breast God Night Season Thief Time
The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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Agent Alone Cause Impression Intelligence Natural Planet Science Spring
The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Experiment Inquiry Mathod Proper Property
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Action Deep Inspirational Opposite Reaction Science
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
If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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Believe Business Positive Result Success Thinking
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
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
A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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Action Body Force Motion Science
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Mathematics Men Old

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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