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.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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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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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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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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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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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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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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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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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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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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