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A collection of notable quotations from a variety of Early Modern Era individuals. See the Guide for more details.
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Genius is patience. — Isaac Newton
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 seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. — Isaac Newton
I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.
— Letter to Henry Oldenburg, 18 Nov 1676
— Isaac Newton
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
— Letter to Robert Hooke, 5 Feb 1675-6
— Isaac Newton
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
— Written in the margin of a notebook while a student at Cambridge
— Isaac Newton
To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.
— The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687
— Isaac Newton
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. — Isaac Newton

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