Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
ISAAC NEWTONThe Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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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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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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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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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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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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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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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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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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