Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.
Where these words come from
- 88% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Newton's Cambridge student notebook, Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae (Certain Philosophical Questions), c.1664; Wikiquote-sourced.
- Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae
- 1664 · Newton's student notebook motto at Cambridge
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