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.
One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility.
The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect
Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.
Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.
criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.
One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.
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