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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
Isaac Newton
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Isaac Newton
Age: 84 †
Born: 1643
Born: January 4
Died: 1727
Died: March 20
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If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders.
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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