I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Quote by Isaac Newton

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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...

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...

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

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 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...

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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...

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

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

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 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...

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...

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.

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

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

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.