Planets Quotes by Isaac Newton

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and…

— Isaac Newton

His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the…

— Isaac Newton

The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.

— Isaac Newton

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

— Isaac Newton

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of…

— Isaac Newton

The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they…

— Isaac Newton

Against filling the Heavens with fluid Mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great Objection arises from the regular and very lasting…

— Isaac Newton

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion…

— Isaac Newton

Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts…

— Isaac Newton

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and…

— Isaac Newton

What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without…

— Isaac Newton

As Attraction is stronger in small Magnets than in great ones in proportion to their Bulk, and Gravity is greater in the…

— Isaac Newton

Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have…

— Isaac Newton