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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

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
ISAAC NEWTON

Doubt Entrepreneur Hard Work Myself Success
Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
ISAAC NEWTON

Friendship Prefer Truth
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
ISAAC NEWTON

Friendship Truth
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
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
ISAAC NEWTON

Art Enemy TAction
Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
ISAAC NEWTON

Assure Lord Provide Scripture Secure
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Cause Discover Establishment Explanation Principle Proceed Prove Science Synthesis
A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
ISAAC NEWTON

Air Atmosphere High Reach Water Weight
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
ISAAC NEWTON

Force Motion Object Science Straight
Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
ISAAC NEWTON

Brain Cause Fiber Motion Nerve Photograph Vision
The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
ISAAC NEWTON

Experiment Inquiry Mathod Proper Property
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
ISAAC NEWTON

Distinct Divine Introduce Opinion Philosophy Religion
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
ISAAC NEWTON

Absence Convince Existence God Proof Thumb
Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
ISAAC NEWTON

Assign Cause Effect Natural Possible
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTON

Further Giant Shoulder Stand
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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