Quotes from Isaac Newton

Ø  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.

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

Ø  I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Ø  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.
Ø  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.
Ø  If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Ø  If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Ø  It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
Ø  Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Ø  To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Ø  To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Ø  We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

 Ø  We build too many walls and not enough bridges.