"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 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."
"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."
"My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success."
"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."