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 NEWTONYet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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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.
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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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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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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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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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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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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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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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