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

Quote by Isaac Newton

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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

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...

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

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

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

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...

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 ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient...

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

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...

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...

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 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.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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...