A 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.
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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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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