The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
ISAAC NEWTONTruth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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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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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 others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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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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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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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 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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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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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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 feign no hypotheses.
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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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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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