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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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Isaac Newton
Age: 84 †
Born: 1643
Born: January 4
Died: 1727
Died: March 20
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The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.
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Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line.
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