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 NEWTONAn object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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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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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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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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