Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
ISAAC NEWTONAtheism 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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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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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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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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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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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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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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