An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
God is able to create particles of matter of several sizes and figures and perhaps of different densities and forces, and thereby to vary the laws of nature, and make worlds of several sorts in several parts of the Universe.
Physics, beware of metaphysics.
If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.