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Age of Enlightenment1 quote
Moreover, in a system of two bodies mutually acting upon each other, since the differences between their centres and the common centre of gravity of both are reciprocally as the bodies, the relative motions of those bodies, whether of approaching to or of receding from that centre, will be equal junong themselves. Therefore since the changes which happen to motions are equal and directed to contrary parts. — Isaac Newton · 1687Classical antiquity1 quote
Give me but one firm spot on which to stand and I will move the earth. — Archimedes · 212 BCThe Renaissance1 quote
That all things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain. — Francis Bacon · 1604