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 NEWTONLet me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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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 way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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What goes up must come down.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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