The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
ISAAC NEWTONThe proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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Genius is patience.
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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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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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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