If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
ISAAC NEWTONIf 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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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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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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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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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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