Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
ISAAC NEWTONThe instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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I feign no hypotheses.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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