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 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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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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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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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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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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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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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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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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