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.
ISAAC NEWTONOpposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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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 great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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What goes up must come down.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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