Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
ISAAC NEWTONNo sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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Genius is patience.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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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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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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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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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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