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Disputed quotes — Isaac Newton

1643–1727 England

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I can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of the people.

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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.

Disputed This first appears in the Isaac Newton : A Biography (1934)

In default of any other proof, the thumb would convince me of the existence of a God.

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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Isaac Newton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.