No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
ISAAC NEWTONI 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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Genius is patience.
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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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Tis 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.
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What goes up must come down.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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