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" The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name. "

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" That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated. "

" As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things. "

" Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances? "

" Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion. "

" We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. "

" God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts. "

" My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success. "

" It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses. "

" Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. "

" I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. "

" We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. "

" It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded. "

" The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them. "

" We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself. "

" I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. "

" 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. "

" In the beginning of the year 1665, I found the method of approximating series and the rule for reducing any dignity of any binomial into such a series. "

" 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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" To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you. "

" 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. "

" The same thing is to be understood of all bodies, revolved in any orbits. They all endeavour to recede from the centres of their orbits, and were it not for the opposition of a contrary force which restrains them to and detains them in their orbits, which I therefore call Centripetal, would fly off in right lines with a uniform motion. "

" I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. "

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" Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts. "

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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. "

" The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat. "

" An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force. "

" God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them. "

" Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so. "