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 NEWTONAbsolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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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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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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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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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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What goes up must come down.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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