Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
ISAAC NEWTONEvery particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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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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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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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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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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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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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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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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