"Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise have been deservedly the boast of their century, served but as obscure forerunners of Newton's glories."

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Source : Thomas Young (1807). “A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts: In Two Volumes”, p.7

Thomas Young

#Twilight Quotes #Science Quotes #Noon Quotes

“Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.”
“By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.”
“I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.”
“You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.”
“As is always the case when peace takes precedence over liberty, neither is achieved.”
“I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble...”
“Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.”
“The important thing is to not walk alone, but to rely on each other as brothers and sisters”

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