I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Isaac Newton
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For five years Isaac had been working eighteen hours a day.

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

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God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne, did not I think it better to pass it by.

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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

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

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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.

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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

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