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Page 34 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state.
Page 34 - Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts.
Page 6 - Kepler and some other astronomers, of universal gravitation — viz. every particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the mass of each, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
Page 18 - I might have written as thick a book as Burnet or Wiston, if I had wished to expand my opinions in their manner; and I might have given weight to my deductions by clothing them in mathematical garments, as the latter has done. But I believe that hypotheses, however probable they be, should not be treated by such apparatus, which savors just a little of charlatanism.
Page 73 - ... in the conscious life of humanity guided by science and morality and motived by Religion, a socialization in which all energy will be expended with perfect economy, the supreme law of ethics, realizing the highest possible development that the elements and energies are capable of on this earth.