Quotes by Isaac Newton

• If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
• We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
• 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.
• To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
• It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
• We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
• 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.
• I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
• Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
• 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.
• Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
• If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
• Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.