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Quote DB :: Authors :: Isaac Newton :: View Quote View Quote "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." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Isaac Newton Listed in: Knowledge Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.72  Rate Quote 18 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Isaac Newton "If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent." "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." "No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess." "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." "This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being." Top 5 quotes from Knowledge "One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing." "Information is not knowledge." "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." "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." "The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds."

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