If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient observation than to any other reason.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
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.
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Objects at rest tend to remain at rest.
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