The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
ISAAC NEWTONThe moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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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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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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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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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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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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