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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the…
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay…
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As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as uniform a…
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with…
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As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the…
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Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and…
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Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and fix'd Bodies,…
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And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that he is…
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He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is…
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes…
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Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces…
— Isaac Newton
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The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general…
— John Stuart Mill
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General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame…
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition…
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Ronald Reagan in foreign affairs, I think, was someone who had certain, very general ideas, general propositions by which he lives: To…
— Robert Dallek
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The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a…
— Nassau William Senior
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