I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
ISAAC NEWTONWhence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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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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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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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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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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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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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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