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.
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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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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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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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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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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What goes up must come down.
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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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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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