I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
ISAAC NEWTONWhere both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
ISAAC NEWTONWhence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
ISAAC NEWTONTo myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
ISAAC NEWTONSir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
ISAAC NEWTONIf the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
ISAAC NEWTONTact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
ISAAC NEWTONHypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
ISAAC NEWTONA body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
ISAAC NEWTONTis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
ISAAC NEWTONNo sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
ISAAC NEWTONThe description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
ISAAC NEWTONErrors are not in the art but in the artificers.
ISAAC NEWTONI see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
ISAAC NEWTONI understood. I have understood. I do understand.
ISAAC NEWTONI feign no hypotheses.
ISAAC NEWTON