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 NEWTONEvery body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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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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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Genius is patience.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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