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“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.
— Isaac Newton
Physicist and mathematician
"The mark that seems most of all to distinguish it [the character of his genius] is this, that he himself was the truest judge, and made the justest estimation of it. One day, when one of this friends had said some handsome things of his ex
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