Isaac Newton Quotes
'Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.'
'I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people'
'If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought'
'If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants'
'Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.'
'To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.'
'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'
Born in
Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire
Died in Kensington, London
More about Isaac Newton
Links:
http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newtlife.html Isaac Newton's Life
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/newton_isaac.shtml BBC page
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