Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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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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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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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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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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