I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
ISAAC NEWTON
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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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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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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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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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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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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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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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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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.
ISAAC NEWTON