Errors Quote by Isaac Newton

“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.”

Isaac Newton

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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

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