An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
ISAAC NEWTONNo old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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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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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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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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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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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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