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Isaac Newton
English
Mathematician
About the author
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton,
English
Mathematician
#Giants
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
Isaac Newton,
English
Mathematician
#Causes
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton,
English
Mathematician
#Truth
#Lie
#Oceans
#Beach
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Isaac Newton,
English
Mathematician
#Honor
#Science
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Isaac Newton,
English
Mathematician
#Action
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
Isaac Newton,
English
Mathematician
#Numbers
#Weight
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Isaac Newton,
English
Mathematician
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Isaac Newton,
English
Mathematician
#Public
#Thought
#Service
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.
Isaac Newton,
English
Mathematician
#Now
#Truth
#Sea
#Ocean
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Isaac Newton,
English
Mathematician
#People
#Madness
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Isaac Newton,
English
Mathematician
#Art
#Errors
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.
Isaac Newton,
English
Mathematician
#May
#Man
#Understanding
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton,
English
Mathematician
#Art
#Enemy
#Tact