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.
ISAAC NEWTONThe motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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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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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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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 am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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