To me there has never been a higher

source of earthly honor or distinction than

that connected with advances in science.
Isaac Newton

To every action there is always opposed
an equal reaction.
Isaac Newton

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
Isaac Newton

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in
motion.
Isaac Newton

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
Isaac Newton

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to
any other talent
Isaac Newton

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel
and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Isaac Newton, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
Isaac Newton

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

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age
Isaac Newton









Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that
all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly
from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek quote

[First observation of protozoa:] Examining this water... I found floating
therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound
serpent-wise.... I judge that some of these little creatures were above a
thousand times smaller than the smallest ones I have ever yet seen, upon
the rind of cheese, in wheaten flour, mould, and the like.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be
accomplished.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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