I can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of the people.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt.
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