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Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
-Sir Isaac Newton
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Creation
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This most beautiful system The Universe could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
-Sir Isaac Newton
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Discovery
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What Des-Cartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, & especially in taking ye colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.
-Sir Isaac Newton, letter to his colleague Robert Hooke dated 5 February 1676
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
-Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Issac Newton's Epitaph
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Evangelism
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The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.
-Sir Isaac Newton
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Imagination
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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.
-Sir Isaac Newton
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Light
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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.
-Sir Isaac Newton
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Patience
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If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
-Sir Isaac Newton
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Security
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us the Lord will provide.
-Sir Isaac Newton
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Thought
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
-Sir Isaac Newton
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Work
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
-Sir Isaac Newton
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Books by and about Sir Isaac Newton