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"Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it."
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"Newton... not only found a precise mathematical use for concepts like force, mass, inertia; he gave new meanings to the old terms space, time, and motion, which had hitherto been unimportant but were now becoming the fundamental categories of mens thinking."
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In physics, motion is the change in position of an object with respect to a reference point over a given time. Motion is mathematically described in terms of displacement, distance, velocity, acceleration, speed, and frame of reference to an observer, measuring the change in position of the body relative to that frame with a change in time. The branch of physics describing the motion of objects wi
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"In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead."
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"Nicholas of Cusa... dared to teach that there is nothing at all without motion in the universe — the latter is infinite in all directions, possessing no centre — and that the earth travels its course in common with the other stars. That this widening of the intellectual horizon of the age, with the suggestion of new centres of interest, was a decisive factor in Copernicus personal development, the brief biographical sketch which he gives of himself in the De Revolutionibus strongly suggests."
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"Questions do not change the truth. But they give it motion."
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"There are as many types of motion or change as there are meanings of the word is."
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"The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea."
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