The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
ISAAC NEWTONIn the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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