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.
ISAAC NEWTONEvery action has an equal and opposite reaction.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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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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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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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 pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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What goes up must come down.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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