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| "I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these computations, having no other business at the time." | | Uncategorized | |
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| 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 | | Uncategorized | |
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| Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. | | Uncategorized | |
| I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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 | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Children; Play | |
| I'm kind of obsessed with that song, I've used it in almost every project I've done, ... I can't get over it. I own 30 versions of it. | | Uncategorized | |
| If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought. | | Uncategorized | |
| If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent | | Discovery | |
| If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. | | Humility; Vision | |
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| If I saw further than other men, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded. | | Uncategorized | |
| No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess | | Discovery | |
| Oh Diamond! Diamond! Thou little knowest the mischief done! (Said to a pet dog who knocked over a candle and set fire to his papers | | Uncategorized | |
| Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. | | Tact | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
