Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
ISAAC NEWTONTo explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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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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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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What goes up must come down.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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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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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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