Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Isaac NewtonDo not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibity; and are they not by their different Inflexions separated from one another, so as after separation to make the Colours in the three Fringes above described? And after what manner are they inflected to make those Fringes?
Isaac NewtonSir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.
Isaac Newton