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 NEWTONTo me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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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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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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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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What goes up must come down.
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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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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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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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