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.
ISAAC NEWTONThe centre of the system of the world is immovable.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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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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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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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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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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