Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
ISAAC NEWTONI see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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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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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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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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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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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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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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