Quote by Isaac Newton Download Open image ““Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion.”” — Isaac Newton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
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Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
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“It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life.… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image