Wisdom Quotes

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

"Genius is patience."

"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."

"I frame no hypotheses."

"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."

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

"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."

"To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age."

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

"The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments."

"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."

"The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics."

"I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses."

"The motions of the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent."