To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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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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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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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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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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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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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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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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