If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

Quote by Isaac Newton

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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of...

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of...

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both...

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both...

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of...

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of...

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that...

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that...

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then...

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then...

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than...

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than...

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the...

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the...

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that...

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that...

The system of revealed truth which this Book contains is like that of the universe,...

The system of revealed truth which this Book contains is like that of the universe,...

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both...

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both...

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of...

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of...

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then...

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then...