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 NEWTONCentripetal 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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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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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 reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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