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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.

Isaac Newton

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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Doubt Entrepreneur Hard Work Myself Success
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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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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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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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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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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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Friendship Truth
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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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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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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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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