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Isaac Newton

Quote of Isaac Newton - To me there has never been...


Biography - Isaac Newton:

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

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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Quotes for: science


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Quotes about science:


Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.





The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.





Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.





Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.





Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.





Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.











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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.





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





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.












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