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 NEWTONNothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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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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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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I 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.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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