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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, By thinking about it all the time.

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Isaac Newton
Age: 84 †
Born: 1643
Born: January 4
Died: 1727
Died: March 20
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
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Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian religion. For this religion is founded upon his prophecy concerning the Messiah .
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