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Quote of Isaac Newton - If I have done the public...


Biography - Isaac Newton:

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

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



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Quotes for: thought


Quotes

Quotes about thought:


Great thoughts come from the heart.





I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.





People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.





Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.





The thought of death betrays us, for it makes us forget to live.





Lucidity adds beauty to profound thoughts.











Quotes for: patience


Quotes

Quotes for: patience


Patience is the companion of wisdom.





Patience and time do more than strength or passion.





Everything comes in time to those who can wait.





It is always the impatience to win that causes someone to lose.





Patience reveals the soul's hidden riches.





Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.











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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.





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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