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.
ISAAC NEWTONTo myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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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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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Genius is patience.
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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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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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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