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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Isaac Newton

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
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
Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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Atheist ManKindness Professor Sense
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
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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Law Man Philosophy
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
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
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
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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Discover Prayer
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
Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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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
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
Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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External Flow Mathematics Nature
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
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.
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Assign Cause Explanation Force Gravity Heaven Sea

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

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