▰ Sources. Quotes and Famous Sayings. Isaac Newton Quotes. 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. Isaac Newton If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. 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.
Isaac Newton, From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855) If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton, Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675 - 5 Quotations in other collections - Search for Isaac Newton at Amazon.com Showing quotations 1 to 5 of 5 total. Browse our complete list of 3436 authors by last name: Famous Quotes and Authors.