A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
ISAAC NEWTONPhysics, beware of metaphysics.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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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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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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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 way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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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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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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