I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
ISAAC NEWTONLet me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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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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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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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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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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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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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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