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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"What goes up must come down."

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

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

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

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

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

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