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 NEWTONAn object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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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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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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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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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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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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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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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