If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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If 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.
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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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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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