...fix his eyes and his mind on a single object ; and Newton is said to have said, as you remember, " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light." These are different, but certainly very wonderful,...

...discovery in science. " I keep the subject," said Sir Isaac Newton, "constantly before me, and wait until the first dawnings open by little and little into a full light." It was thus that, after long meditation, he was led to the invention of fluxions, and to the anticipation...

...patience of thought, rather than any extraordinary sagacity which he was endowed with above other men. I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait...first dawnings open by little and little, into a full and clear light." It would be easy to pursue this subject, and to accumulate instances in proof that...

...God." Newton said, " That to his patience he owed everything, more than to any extraordinary sagacity. I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light." An exact description of the mode of influx...

...God." Newton said, " That to his patience he owed everything, more than to any extraordinary sagacity. I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light." An exact description of the mode of influx...

..." By always thinking unto them ;" and at another time he thus expressed his method of proceeding, " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into the full and clear light." Again, in a letter to Dr. Bentley he says,...

..." By always thinking unto them ;" and at another time he thus expressed his method of proceeding, " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into the full and clear light." Again, in a letter to Dr. Bentley he says,...

...nothing but industry and patient thought." When asked how he arrived at his discoveries, he replied : " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light." Thus was produced the Principia, to which...

...patiently works it out with minute induction, proving each step as he goes along. To use his own words, " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light." Darwin, fancying that he has grasped a...

...discovery in science. ' I keep the subject,' said Sir Isaac Newton, ' constantly before me, and wait until the first dawnings open by little and little into a full light.' It was thus that, after long meditation, he was led to the invention of fluxions, and to the anticipation...