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.
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.
ISAAC NEWTONTis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
ISAAC NEWTONTact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
ISAAC NEWTONAtheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
ISAAC NEWTONThe instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
ISAAC NEWTONThe Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
ISAAC NEWTONNothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
ISAAC NEWTONLive your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
ISAAC NEWTONA cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
ISAAC NEWTONTo arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
ISAAC NEWTONTo explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
ISAAC NEWTONIt seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
ISAAC NEWTONI see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
ISAAC NEWTONReligion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
ISAAC NEWTONYet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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