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 NEWTONTo me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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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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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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A 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.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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