Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
ISAAC NEWTONCentripetal 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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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.
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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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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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