If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
—Isaac Newton
Topics: Knowledge, Vision
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
—Isaac Newton
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
—Isaac Newton
Topics: Discovery
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
—Isaac Newton
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 myself in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
—Isaac Newton
Topics: Discovery, Truth
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.
—Isaac Newton
Topics: Imagination
To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
—Isaac Newton
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