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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.

Isaac Newton

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
ISAAC NEWTON

Determination Experiment Explanation Hypothesis Property
Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
ISAAC NEWTON

Breast God Night Season Thief Time
The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
ISAAC NEWTON

Business Example Inspirational Knowledge One Liner Understand
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTON

Further Giant Shoulder Stand
A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
ISAAC NEWTON

Action Body Force Motion Science
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
ISAAC NEWTON

Confusion Finding Simplicity Truth
Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
ISAAC NEWTON

Assure Lord Provide Scripture Secure
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
ISAAC NEWTON

Deep Done Due Patience Public Service
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
ISAAC NEWTON

Mathematics Men Old
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
ISAAC NEWTON

Beginning God Particle Science
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
ISAAC NEWTON

Blind Color God Ideas Man Manner Understand Wise
My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
ISAAC NEWTON

Attempt Defeat Error Establishment Method Purpose Truth Wheat
Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
ISAAC NEWTON

Infinite Matter Possible Science
Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
ISAAC NEWTON

Attraction Distance Force Gravity Particle Proportional Science
The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
ISAAC NEWTON

Cause Discover Establishment Explanation Principle Proceed Prove Science Synthesis
Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body Change Force Impact Motion Persist State Straight Uniform

The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.

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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.

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