Monday, May 4, 2009

Sir Isaac Newton’s Third law of motion, the law of reciprocal actions

Sir Isaac Newton’s Third law of motion, the law of reciprocal actions, teaches us that
everything is ruled by cause and effect.

“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.
Whatever draws or presses another is as much drawn or
pressed by that other. If you press a stone with your finger, the finger
is also pressed by the stone. If a horse draws a stone tied to a rope,
the horse (if I may so say) will be equally drawn back towards
the stone; for the distended rope, by the same endeavor to
relax or unbend itself, will draw the horse as much towards
the stone, as it does the stone towards the horse, and will
obstruct the progress of the one as much as it advances that
of the other...This law takes place also in attractions”
“Therefore the force of gravity towards any whole planet arises
from, and is compounded of, the forces of gravity towards all
its parts. Magnetic and electric attractions afford us examples of
this; for all attraction towards the whole arises from the
attractions towards the several parts.”
Sir Isaac Newton’s: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Published in Latin,
1687.


Qoutes is also included in my upcoming book--My Journey to Enlightenment--- Expecting Everything and Doubting Nothing.