Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, othe...
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
What goes up must come down.
The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contrary...
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age
Genius is patience.
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...
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.