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Quote by Isaac Newton
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or dis

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. – Isaac Newton

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I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton

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Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness but a belief is always sensitive. – James Anthony Froude

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Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science. – Paul Nurse

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There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest. – Rudolph Ladenburg

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