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.
ISAAC NEWTONI have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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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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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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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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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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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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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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