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 NEWTONIt is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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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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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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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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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.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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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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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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