He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.
Interpretation
Gaining deep knowledge requires effort and occasional breaks.
This quote by Isaac Newton emphasizes that those who pursue knowledge intensely must sometimes pause to refresh themselves. Just as miners need to come up for air after digging deep, individuals engaged in rigorous intellectual exploration must take breaks to maintain their well-being and perspective.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of education and lifelong learning.
The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by experiences [experiments] and then to proceed slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them. For hypotheses should be employed only in explaining the properties of things, but not assumed in determining them; unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated.
And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that he is supreme, or supremely perfect. He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, he endures from eternity to eternity; and he is present from infinity to infinity; he rules all things, and he knows all things that happen or can happen.
My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which, I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms.
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
As charms are nonsense,_x000D_ nonsense is a charm.
I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me.
Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.
You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take.
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