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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.

Isaac Newton

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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Atheist God ManKindness Opposite Practice Profession Professor
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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Distinct Divine Introduce Opinion Philosophy Religion
Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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Consist God Knowledge Love Man Worship
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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Force Motion Object Science Straight
What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Business Deep Drops Inspirational Knowledge Learning
I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Inspirational One Liner Understand
All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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Knowledge Play Sea Shell Stone Truth Understand Universe
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Friendship Truth
You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Follow Funny One Liner Rule
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Action Deep Inspirational Opposite Reaction Science
The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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Cause Discover Establishment Explanation Principle Proceed Prove Science Synthesis
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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Law Man Philosophy
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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Body Force Happen Magnet Nature Quantity Reason
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Further Giant Shoulder Stand
Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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Assure Lord Provide Scripture Secure
I feign no hypotheses.
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Hypothesis Mathematics
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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Clear Constant Inquiry Light Subject
Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Comfortable Herself Nature One Liner
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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Dummy Minimalism Nature Please Simplicity
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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Attempt Defeat Error Establishment Method Purpose Truth Wheat
If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
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Defective Difficult Experiment Invalid Objection Prove Show Theory
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Bold Business Discover Greatness Guess Inspirational
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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Assign Cause Explanation Force Gravity Heaven Sea
An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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Motion Object Science Stay
Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Friendship Prefer Truth
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 NEWTON

Earth Gravity Moon Motion Orbit Science
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Infinite Matter Possible Science

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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