 I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. |
| To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. |
| We build too many walls and not enough bridges. |
| 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. |
| It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded. |
| 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. |
| To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. |
| Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. |
| 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. |
| Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. |
| To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. |
| If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought. |
