Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
ISAAC NEWTONGravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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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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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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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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