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

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Isaac Newton

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

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

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

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

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

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

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Isaac Newton

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


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

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

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Isaac Newton