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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Isaac Newton

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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Always God Substain Substance Virtual Viture
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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False Human Nature Imagination Man Understand
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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Beach Children Discover Inspirational Lie Myself Ocean Play Truth
The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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Heat Shine Vapor
Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Apple Drops Science Wonder
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Creation God Number Weight
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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Discover Prayer
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.
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Earth Gravity Moon Motion Orbit Science
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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Amount Atheist Chance Distance Earth Happen Heat Light Look Receive Solar System Sun
Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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Cause Effect Natural Possible Science
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Authencity History Science
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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Body Change Force Impact Motion Persist State Straight Uniform
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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Distinct Divine Introduce Opinion Philosophy Religion
A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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Action Body Force Motion Science
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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Agent Alone Cause Impression Intelligence Natural Planet Science Spring
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Experiment Number Regard Science Weight

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

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