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Letter "I" » Isaac Newton Quotes
«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.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
| About:
Falsehood,
Imagination,
Mankind,
Truth,
Understanding
| Keywords:
apprehension, apprehensions
«To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
| Keywords:
Advances, connected, distinction, earthly
«Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
| Keywords:
frequency, gracious, medicines, physician, prescribes, prescription, prescriptions, proportions, Trials
«I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, 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.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
| Keywords:
diverting, pebble, prettier, seashore, shell, smoother
«It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.»
«If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.»
«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»
«The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree.»
«About the Time of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the Prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
| Keywords:
Body of, clamor, insist, interpretation, literal interpretation, Prophecies
«Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.»
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