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Objects do nothing until something rude forces them to.
means One of the three principles (formulated by Newton) describing how an object's motion changes in response to force — covering inertia, F=ma, and action-reaction pairs.
from From Latin lex ("law") plus motio ("movement," from movere, "to move"). The phrase crystallized with Isaac Newton's 1687 Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, where he laid out three such laws as the grammar underlying all mechanics — though the broader habit of calling nature's regularities "laws," as if the universe were bound by a legal code, grew out of earlier natural philosophy that imagined a divine lawgiver behind physical order.
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- Newton, three laws, one bruised apple myth
- first law
- inertia: laziness formalized into physics
- second law
- f equals m times a, the famous one
- third law
- every push gets an equal shove back