Sir Isaac Newton Quotes

Sir Isaac Newton (17)

Birth:	25th December, 1642
Death:	20th March, 1727
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Astronomer, Chemist, Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist

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• This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

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

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• I seem to have been only 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.

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

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

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• I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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• I seem to have been like a child playing on the seashore, finding new and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.

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

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