Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
ISAAC NEWTONOh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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Tis 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.
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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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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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Atheism 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.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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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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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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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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