An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
ISAAC NEWTONA man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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