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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.

Isaac Newton

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
ISAAC NEWTON

Determination Experiment Explanation Hypothesis Property
Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
ISAAC NEWTON

Discover Gravity Thinking Time
Genius is patience.
ISAAC NEWTON

Genius Inspirational One Liner Patience
Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
ISAAC NEWTON

Apple Drops Science Wonder
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
ISAAC NEWTON

Kindness Nonsense One Liner Poetry
An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
ISAAC NEWTON

Motion Object Science Stay
To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
ISAAC NEWTON

Arrive Contemplation Requirement Simplicity Truth
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Amount Atheist Chance Distance Earth Happen Heat Light Look Receive Solar System Sun
God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body God Imagination Relative Respect Servant World
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
ISAAC NEWTON

Admit Appearance Cause Explanation Nature Sufficient
A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
ISAAC NEWTON

Action Body Force Motion Science
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
ISAAC NEWTON

Confusion Finding Simplicity Truth
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Attempt Defeat Error Establishment Method Purpose Truth Wheat
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
ISAAC NEWTON

Action Deep Inspirational Opposite Reaction Science
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
ISAAC NEWTON

Beginning God Particle Science
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

False Human Nature Imagination Man Understand

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