There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
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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 sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me.
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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 sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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What Des-Cartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, & especially in taking ye colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.
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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 sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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.
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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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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.
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If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
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If I have seen farther than others it has been by standing on the shoulders of giants
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
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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.
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Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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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.
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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
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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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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy
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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
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Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.
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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.
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If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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We build too many walls and not enough bridges
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science
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