understanding Quotes

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.

Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.