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Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)

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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.

– Isaac Newton

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Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.

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Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

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I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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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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I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.

– Isaac Newton

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I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

– Isaac Newton

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I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

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If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants

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If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

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If I have seen further... it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

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This most beautiful system -- The Universe could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

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To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction

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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us the Lord will provide.

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