I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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Isaac NewtonReply on how he made his discoveries, Biographia Britannica (1760)
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English mathematician and physicist who formulated the laws of motion and gravity. (1643-1727)
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