To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
"Knight Bachelor/Sir Isaac Newton" /motion of objects on Earth and of celestial mechanics/celestial bodies could be described by the same principles. His prediction that the Earth should be shaped as an oblate spheroid was later vindicated by the measurements of Pierre Louis Maupertuis/Maupertuis, Charles Marie de La Condamine/La Condamine, and others, which helped convince most Continental European scientists of the superiority of Newtonian mechanics over the earlier system of René Descartes/Descartes.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous mathematicians! More Isaac Newton on Wikipedia.I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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 sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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.
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
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