Sir Isaac Newton Quotes

• If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

  Sir Isaac Newton

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

  Sir Isaac Newton

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• I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

  Sir Isaac Newton

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

  Sir Isaac Newton

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• 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.

  Sir Isaac Newton

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• If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.

  Sir Isaac Newton

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• I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, 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.

  Sir Isaac Newton

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• I seem to have been like a child playing on the seashore, finding new and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.

  Sir Isaac Newton

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  Tags in School, Ignorance, Creativity

Sir Isaac Newton (28)

Birth:	25th December, 1642
Death:	20th March, 1727
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Astronomer, Chemist, Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist

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