An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
ISAAC NEWTONI can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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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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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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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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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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If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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