Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
ISAAC NEWTONTruth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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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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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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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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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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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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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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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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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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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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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