Isaac Newton
“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.”
“Hypotheses non fingo.”
“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.”