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 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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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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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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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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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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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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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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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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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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