The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
ISAAC NEWTONTruth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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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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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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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.
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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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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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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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