If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
ISAAC NEWTONI see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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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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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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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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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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