Isaac Newton quotes

1643–1727 · Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England

This most beautiful System of the Sun, Planets and Comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
VerifiedIsaac Newton
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The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, translated by Andrew Motte, vol. 2, 1729 · Book III, General Scholium, p. 388
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...For Nature is pleas'd with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
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The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, translated by Andrew Motte, vol. 2, 1729 · Book III, Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy, Rule I, p. 202
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Internet Archive (scan of the 1729 Motte edition, London: Benjamin Motte)