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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.

Cosmos, Creation, Intelligence, Universe, Faith, Order

This most beautiful system of the sun planets and comets

This most beautiful system of the sun planets and comets

This most beautiful system of the sun planets and comets

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More Isaac Newton Quotes

“Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.”

Motion, Rest, Physics, Resistance, Impulse, Perception

“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.”

God, Creation, Philosophy, Spirituality, Theology, Divine Will

“Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.”

Hypotheses, Science, Experimentation, Philosophy, Properties

“That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.”

Matter, Physics, Observation, Science, Division, Particles

“I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.”

Knowledge, Humility, Discovery, Curiosity, Self-Reflection, Wisdom

“There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.”

Scripture, Authenticity, Faith, Bible, History, Religious Beliefs

“I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.”

Philosophy, Self-awareness, Reflection, Life, Struggle, Thought

“Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood?”

Fire, Heat, Science, Light, Physics

“Against filling the Heavens with fluid Mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great Objection arises from the regular and very lasting Motions of the Planets and Comets in all manner of Courses through the Heavens.”

Astronomy, Planets, Comets, Science, Motion

“We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.”

Science, Experimentation, Nature, Philosophy, Evidence

“For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.”

Light, Color, Physics, Perception, Science, Rays

“Nature is pleased with simplicity.”

Nature, Simplicity, Philosophy, Efficiency, Order

“If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.”

Gravity, Projectiles, Motion, Physics, Laws

“If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.”

Hard Work, Effort, Success, Achievement, Philosophy

“The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.”

Chastity, Self-Control, Mental Discipline, Purity, Focus, Spirituality

“Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.”

Infinity, Mathematics, Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

“I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business.”

Mathematics, Distraction, Time, Duty, Focus, Science

“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.”

Truth, Knowledge, Error, Philosophy, Wisdom

“Live your life as an exclamation rather than an explanation.”

Life, Living Fully, Inspiration, Exclamation, Philosophy, Action

“I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter.”

Method, Discovery, Leibniz, Competition, Philosophy