What goes up must come down.
ISAAC NEWTONEvery 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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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.
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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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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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.
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