Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
ISAAC NEWTONIf others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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 have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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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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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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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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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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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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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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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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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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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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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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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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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 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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