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.
ISAAC NEWTONIt is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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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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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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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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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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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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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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