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.
ISAAC NEWTONIt 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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