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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

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
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Mathematics Men Old
I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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Myself Philosophy Slave
The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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Earth Gravity Moon Motion Orbit Science
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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Description Geometry Mathematics Requirement Teaching
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
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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Age Difficult Explanation Explore Man Task Travel
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
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Authencity History Science
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
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Accomplishment Celibacy Consider Greatness Life
Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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Diamond Done Inspirational Mischief
Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Comfortable Herself Nature One Liner
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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Beach Children Discover Inspirational Lie Myself Ocean Play Truth
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

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

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