"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion."
"Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external."
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Source: Sir Isaac Newton, Florian Cajori (1946). “Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World”, p.6, Univ of California Press
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