The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
ISAAC NEWTONSir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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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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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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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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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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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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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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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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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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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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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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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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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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