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who said to every action there is a reaction
Sir Isaac Newton's third law is, For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
in what era did Sir Isaac Newton become renowned
English physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton was the culminating figure of the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century
where did sir isaac newton go to school
Sir Isaac Newton attended Trinity College Cambridge

Question: why did the physicist resist publishing his work
Self-contained rewrite: why did sir isaac newton resist publishing his work