Isaac

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1. Isaac - Noun

2. Isaac - Proper noun

Meaning

(Old Testament) the second patriarch; son of Abraham and Sarah who was offered by Abraham as a sacrifice to God; father of Jacob and Esau

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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. Bertrand Russell

The landscape has been so totally changed, the ways of thinking have been so deeply affected, that it is very hard to get hold of what it was like before... It is very hard to realize how total a change in outlook Isaac Newton has produced. Hermann Bondi

Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain. Martin Luther

Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated. Chief Joseph

The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world. Cory Doctorow

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process. Joseph Priestley

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