“I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
[Reply upon being asked how he made his discoveries]”
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[Reply upon being asked how he made his discoveries]”
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“we are not to consider the world as the body of God, or the several parts thereof as the parts of God. He is a uniform Being, void of organs, members or parts,...being everywhere present to the things themselves. And since space is divisible in infinitum, and matter is not necessarily in all places, it may also be allowed that God is able to create particles of matter of several sizes and figures, and in several proportions of space, and perhaps of different densities and forces, and thereby to vary the laws of Nature, and make worlds of several sorts in several parts of the Universe. At least I see nothing of contradiction in this.”
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“Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.”
― Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
― Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
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