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 now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

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

"My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success."

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

"Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts."

"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion."

"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."

"What goes up must come down."

"Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy"

"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 now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

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

"Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy"

"Lo que sabemos es una gota de agua; lo que ignoramos es un océano."

"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion."

"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."