Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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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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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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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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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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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.
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