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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with I >> Quotes By Isaac Newton |
| Quote #1: | "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." |
| Quote #2: | "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." |
| Quote #3: | "I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." |
| Quote #4: | "If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent." |
| Quote #5: | "Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy." |
| Quote #6: | "I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light." |
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