"To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you."
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"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."
Isaac Newton"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
Isaac Newton"Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance."
Isaac Newton"In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence."
Isaac Newton"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."
Isaac Newton"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"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
Isaac Newton"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."
Isaac Newton"Genius is patience."
Isaac Newton"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."
Isaac Newton"My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success."
Isaac Newton"Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth."
Isaac Newton"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
Isaac Newton"The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun."
Isaac Newton"The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contrary to them."
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