If I Have Done The Public Any Service, It Is Due To My Patient Thought.

“If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.”

—Isaac Newton

“The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.”

—Rene Descartes

“The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.”

—Meister Eckhart

“He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.”

—Meister Eckhart

“Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”

—Isaac Newton

“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”

—Vincent Van Gogh