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"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." -
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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."
"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."
"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."
"No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess."
"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."
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds."
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