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

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

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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

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Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

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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...more

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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

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God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may underst...more