If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.