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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."
"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."
"No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess."
"This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."
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"Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
"As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities."
"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."
"There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."
"The destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits--not animals."
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