Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
ISAAC NEWTONThe moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets 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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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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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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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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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.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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