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

Topics: Discovery Quotes

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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 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.

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 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...

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.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

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...

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

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.

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 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...

Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The...

Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The...

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which...

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which...

Without humility there can be no humanity

Without humility there can be no humanity

Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see

Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see