If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTONA man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Genius is patience.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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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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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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The 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.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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