--- title: "13 Planets Quotes By Isaac Newton" description: "13 Planets quotes by Isaac Newton. Plus more from Isaac Newton and more Planets sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0a/isaac-newton-1226_gravity_gravity-explains-the-motions-of-the-plan_1196382.jpg" --- > [Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/gravity-explains-the-motions-of-the-planets-but-it-cannot-explain-who/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0a/isaac-newton-1226_gravity_gravity-explains-the-motions-of-the-plan_1196382.jpg) > [His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/his-epitaph-who-by-vigor-of-mind-almost-divine-the-motions-and/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fd/isaac-newton-1226_comets_his-epitaph-who-by-vigor-of-mind-almost_1181234.jpg) > [This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/this-most-beautiful-system-of-the-sun-planets-and-comets-could-only-3/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/872/isaac-newton-1226_beautiful_this-most-beautiful-system-of-the-sun-pl_1690490.jpg) > [The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/the-motions-which-the-planets-now-have-could-not-spring-from-any/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/891/isaac-newton-1226_alone_the-motions-which-the-planets-now-have-c_647564.jpg) > [Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/just-as-the-system-of-the-sun-planets-and-comets-is-put-in-motion-by/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/221/isaac-newton-1226_gravity_just-as-the-system-of-the-sun-planets-an_1286496.jpg) > [This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/this-most-beautiful-system-of-the-sun-planets-and-comets-could-only-2/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fb/isaac-newton-1226_astronomy_this-most-beautiful-system-of-the-sun-pl_1564182.jpg) > [The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/the-smaller-the-planets-are-they-are-other-things-being-equal-of-so/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a82/isaac-newton-1226_being_the-smaller-the-planets-are-they-are-oth_2025609.jpg) > [The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/the-motions-of-the-comets-are-exceedingly-regular-and-they-observe/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3b/isaac-newton-1226_laws_the-motions-of-the-comets-are-exceedingl_1264391.jpg) > [Against filling the Heavens with fluid Mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great Objection arises from the regular and very lasting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/against-filling-the-heavens-with-fluid-mediums-unless-they-be/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a1/isaac-newton-1226_arise_against-filling-the-heavens-with-fluid-m_1765257.jpg) > [Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/gravity-may-put-the-planets-into-motion-but-without-the-divine-power/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/287/isaac-newton-1226_divine_gravity-may-put-the-planets-into-motion_1930670.jpg) > [What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/what-is-there-in-places-empty-of-matter-and-whence-is-it-that-the-sun/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ac/isaac-newton-1226_arise_what-is-there-in-places-empty-of-matter_264112.jpg) > [As Attraction is stronger in small Magnets than in great ones in proportion to their Bulk, and Gravity is greater in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/as-attraction-is-stronger-in-small-magnets-than-in-great-ones-in/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73a/isaac-newton-1226_agents_as-attraction-is-stronger-in-small-magne_3064945.jpg) > [Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/thus-far-i-have-explained-the-phenomena-of-the-heavens-and-of-our-sea/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/294/isaac-newton-1226_action_thus-far-i-have-explained-the-phenomena_2164591.jpg) ## Other authors on Planets ## More by Isaac Newton > [The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/the-same-law-takes-place-in-a-system-consisting-of-many-bodies-as-in/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/i-have-been-much-amused-at-ye-singular-phenomena-resulting-from/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/no-great-discovery-was-ever-made-without-a-bold-guess/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/i-keep-the-subject-of-my-inquiry-constantly-before-me-and-wait-till/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/philosophy-is-such-an-impertinently-litigious-lady-that-a-man-had-as/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) \[all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/do-not-bodies-act-upon-light-at-a-distance-and-by-their-action-bend/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/god-in-the-beginning-formed-matter-in-solid-massy-hard-impenetrable/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [ I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations \[of Pi\], having no other business at the time ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/i-am-ashamed-to-tell-you-to-how-many-figures-i-carried-these/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/hypotheses-non-fingo-i-frame-no-hypotheses/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/the-ignis-fatuus-is-a-vapor-shining-without-heat/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/blind-metaphysical-necessity-which-is-certainly-the-same-always-and/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/you-sometimes-speak-of-gravity-as-essential-and-inherent-to-matter/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/there-are-more-sure-marks-of-authenticity-in-the-bible-than-in-any/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/therefore-to-the-same-natural-effects-we-must-as-far-as-possible/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our strength, our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/in-scripture-we-are-told-of-some-trusting-in-god-and-others-trusting/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/planets/isaac-newton/#itemlist", "name": "13 Planets Quotes By Isaac Newton", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Isaac Newton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/gravity-explains-the-motions-of-the-planets-but-it-cannot-explain-who/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0a/isaac-newton-1226_gravity_gravity-explains-the-motions-of-the-plan_1196382.jpg", "contentUrl": 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Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain? and Whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world? 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