“Nothing would be done at all, if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.”
“Growth is the only evidence of life.”
“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.”
“What we know is a drop, what we do not know is an ocean.”
“Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.”
“To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man.”
“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.”
“Nature is pleased with simplicity.”
“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
“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.”
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
“To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.”
“The doer alone learneth.”
“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
“There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.”
“What is done out of love is beyond good and evil.”
“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”