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" 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 Newton
Teach
Right
Geometry
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" It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded. "
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Regarded
" My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success. "
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Success
Ordinary
" The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and therefore, it infers a deity. "
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Gravity
" Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in motion by other forces and their particles to be variously moved in relation to each other and, especially, by the electric force. "
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System
Sun
" Genius is patience. "
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Genius
" God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them. "
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Hard
Beginning
End
" Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers. "
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Acting
Gravity
" In the beginning of the year 1665, I found the method of approximating series and the rule for reducing any dignity of any binomial into such a series. "
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Rule
Year
Found
" I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business. "
Isaac Newton
Business
People
Time
" To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. "
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Reaction
Brainy
Action
" To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. "
Isaac Newton
Connected
Me
Honor
" Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths. "
Isaac Newton
Obedience
Men
Law
" If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed. "
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Gravity
Air
Uniform
" A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. "
Isaac Newton
Understanding
Imagination
Man
" 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. "
Isaac Newton
Only
Experiments
Far
" I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter. "
Isaac Newton
Before
Date
Found
" God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts. "
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Parents
Honor
God
" The word 'God' usually signifies 'Lord', but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God. "
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Spiritual
True
Supreme
" Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest. "
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Thought
Body
Light
" The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat. "
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Heat
Without
Shining
" If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought. "
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Public
Done
Thought
" 'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants. "
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World
Body
God
" The same thing is to be understood of all bodies, revolved in any orbits. They all endeavour to recede from the centres of their orbits, and were it not for the opposition of a contrary force which restrains them to and detains them in their orbits, which I therefore call Centripetal, would fly off in right lines with a uniform motion. "
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Uniform
Fly
Lines
" The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments. "
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Method
Experiments
Things
" All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the 'Lord God.' "
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Variety
God
Life
" It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change. "
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Motion
Time
True
" It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses. "
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True
Great
Matter
" In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence. "
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Existence
Me
Alone
" 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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