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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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Top 5 quotes from 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."
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
"No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess."
"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."
"This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."
Top 5 quotes from Miscellaneous
"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness."
"Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities."
"As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever."
"Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity."
"Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only."
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