My Principal Method For Defeating

Every Action Has An Equal And Opposite Reaction

If I Had Stayed For Other People To Make My Tools And Things For Me, I Had Never Made Anything.

Our Present Work Sets Forth Mathematical Principles Of Philosophy. For The Basic Problem Of Philosophy Seems To Be To Discover The Forces Of Nature From The Phenomena Of Motions And Then To Demonstrate The Other Phenomena From These Forces. It Is To These Ends That The General Propositions In Books 1 And 2 Are Directed, While In Book 3 Our Explanation Of The System Of The World Illustrates These Propositions.

An Object That Is At Rest Will Tend To Stay At Rest. An Object That Is In Motion Will Tend To Stay In Motion.

. . . Newton Was An Unquestioning Believer In An All-wise Creator Of The Universe, And In His Own Inability - Like The Boy On The Seashore - To Fathom The Entire Ocean In All Its Depths. He Therefore Believed That There Were Not Only Many Things In Heaven Beyond His Philosophy, But Plenty On Earth As Well, And He Made It His Business To Understand For Himself What The Majority Of Intelligent Men Of His Time Accepted Without Dispute (to Them It Was As Natural As Common Sense) - The Traditional Account Of The Creation.