What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
ISAAC NEWTONGravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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 great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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What goes up must come down.
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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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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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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 have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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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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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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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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