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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

Isaac Newton

My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
ISAAC NEWTON

Attempt Defeat Error Establishment Method Purpose Truth Wheat
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body Force Science
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
ISAAC NEWTON

Distinct Divine Introduce Opinion Philosophy Religion
If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
ISAAC NEWTON

Believe Business Positive Result Success Thinking
Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
ISAAC NEWTON

Hypothesis
Genius is patience.
ISAAC NEWTON

Genius Inspirational One Liner Patience
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
ISAAC NEWTON

Authencity History Science
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
ISAAC NEWTON

Agent Effect Insect Instinct Live Powerful Skill Wisdom
The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
ISAAC NEWTON

Centre Move Science System World
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
ISAAC NEWTON

Law Man Philosophy
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Assign Cause Explanation Force Gravity Heaven Sea
What goes up must come down.
ISAAC NEWTON

Come Deep Life One Liner Reality Science
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Continent Meditation Reading Struggle
Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
ISAAC NEWTON

Apple Drops Science Wonder
A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
ISAAC NEWTON

Air Atmosphere High Reach Water Weight
Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
ISAAC NEWTON

Cause Effect Natural Possible Science

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