If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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Genius is patience.
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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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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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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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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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