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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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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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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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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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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