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Quote of Isaac Newton - Truth is ever to be found...


Biography - Isaac Newton:

English mathematician, astronomer and physicist.
Born: 1643 - Died: 1727
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.



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Out of clutter find simplicity ; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

Simplicity can only exist in what is true.

The language of truth is simple.

Great things only require to be simply told.




Quotes for: simplicity


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Quotes about simplicity:


Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.





Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.





Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.





Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.





Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.





There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.











Quotes for: truth


Quotes

Quotes for: truth


To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.





Love truth, but pardon error.





Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.





Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.











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Isaac Newton also said...


If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.





Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.





To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.





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.





If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.





To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.












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