The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
ISAAC NEWTONEvery action has an equal and opposite reaction.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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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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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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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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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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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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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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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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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