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.
ISAAC NEWTONAtheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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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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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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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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I feign no hypotheses.
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