If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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I feign no hypotheses.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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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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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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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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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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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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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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