Genius is patience.
ISAAC NEWTONAs 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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I feign no hypotheses.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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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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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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What goes up must come down.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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