If I have done the public any service this way, 'tis due to nothing but industry and a patient thought.
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Isaac NewtonLetter to Richard Bentley (1692)
About Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist who formulated the laws of motion and gravity. (1643-1727)
More from Isaac Newton
- If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.Letter to Robert Hooke (1676)
- 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.Reply on how he made his discoveries, Biographia Britannica (1760)
- Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.Rules for methodizing the Apocalypse, manuscript
- To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore... whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Quoted in David Brewster, Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton (1855)
More quotes on habits and discipline
- There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.Bruce Lee
- Success is not an accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.Pelé
- Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.Pablo Picasso
- Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.Vincent van Gogh
- Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.Zig Ziglar
- Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.Zig Ziglar
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