Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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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 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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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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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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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Genius is patience.
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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 see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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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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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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