Quotes by Isaac Newton

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

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

"We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances."

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

"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."

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

"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."

"We build too many walls and not enough bridges."

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."

"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."

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

"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."

"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."

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

"Wisdom principle 103 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 41."

"Wisdom principle 98 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 38."

"Wisdom principle 93 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 35."

"Wisdom principle 88 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 32."

"Wisdom principle 83 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 29."