Quote by Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

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 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.

— Isaac Newton. English polymath (1642–1727)

Discovery, Knowledge

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If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
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.
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

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