QuoteQuest“I have studied these things — you have not.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Isaac Newton
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- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Reported as Newton's response, whenever Edmond Halley would say anything disrespectful of religion, by Sir David Brewster in The Life of Sir Isaac Newton (1831). This has often been quoted in recent years as having been a statement specifically defending Astrology. Newton wrote extensively on the im
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Newton, Isaac. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Isaac Newton. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
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