Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Isaac Newton

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Truth Philosophers

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Isaac Newton

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Latin

Time

1664 1660s 17th century

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Mathematician Physicist Scientist

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Newton, Isaac. Questiones Quaedam Philosophcae. c. 1664.

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God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable Particles, of such Sizes and Figures, and with such other Properties, and in such Proportion to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them.

Isaac Newton

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light

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Atomism Creation of the world God and creation

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Isaac Newton
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Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light
Medium
Treatise
Genre
Scientific literature
Language
English
Time
1704 1700s 18th century
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Newton, Isaac. Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. London: Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford, 1704, bk. 3, pt. 1, question 31.

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Newton, Isaac. Opticks. Dover Publications, 2012, bk. 3, pt. 1, question 31.

Another quote from the 1660s

O fairest of Creation, last and best
Of all God's works.

John Milton

Paradise Lost

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Eve Nature of women Women

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John Milton
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Paradise Lost
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Poem
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Epic poem Religious literature
Language
English
Time
1667 1660s 17th century
Era
European Renaissance
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Original Citation

Milton, John. Paradise Lost. London: Samuel Simmons, 1667, bk. 8, I. 896.

Current Citation

"Paradise Lost." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 9, I. 896.

Another quote about Truth

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest

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Topic
The painful truth Truth

Author

David Foster Wallace
Source
Infinite Jest
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1996 1990s 20th century
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Citation

Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

Another quote originally in Latin

All we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

William Harvey

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The unknown Limits of knowledge

Author

William Harvey
Genre
Scientific literature
Language
Latin
Time
1628 1620s 17th century
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Harvey, William. "Dedication to Dr. Argent and Other Learned Physicians." Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus [An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Living Beings]. Frankfurt: William Fitzer, 1628.