To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‘Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
—Isaac Newton
One of Isaac Newton’s important contributions to Physics is his Laws of Motion.
Law I: Every body persists in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight forward, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by force impressed.
Law II: The alteration of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impress’d; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impress’d.
Law III: To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
A rioter in Portsmouth, Virginia, ran afoul of these laws while vandalizing a monument. A statue on the monument broke off and, obeying the Laws of Motion, proceeded to strike the vandal, sending him to the hospital.
We’re also beginning to see examples of a psychosocial analog of the Third Law in reactions to leftist vandalism. For example, The Sun reports that vandals have defaced the bust of Jamaican playwright by bleaching it.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction …
The governors and mayors in the blue jurisdictions would do well to use their police and National Guard resources to put an end to the disturbances before citizens begin to take matters into their own hands.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
—Isaac Newton
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
—Isaac Newton
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
—Isaac Newton
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
—Isaac Newton
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‘Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
—Isaac Newton
It is the perfection of God’s works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity.
—Isaac Newton
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
—Isaac Newton
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
—Isaac Newton
Amicus Plato—amicus Aristoteles—magis amica verities. Plato is my friend—Aristotle is my friend—but my greatest friend is truth.
—Isaac Newton
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‘Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
—Isaac Newton