The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
ISAAC NEWTONLet me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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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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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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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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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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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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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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