The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
ISAAC NEWTONAn object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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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.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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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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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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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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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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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.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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