If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.
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Attributing success to luck may underestimate deliberate effort.
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to lea…
If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, by reasons entirely mathematical and cert…
I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, t…
Fortune favours the brave:
We've discovered the secret of life.
In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were …