The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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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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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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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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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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