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Readers Digest Book of Facts, 1995:

Sir Isaac newton, British Scientist; died in 1727: 'I don't know what I may seem to the world. But as to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.'

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Isaac Newton's last words were:

"I don't know what I may seem to the world. But to myself, I seem to have been 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."

This is according to the "City of the Silent" Last words website (see the link).

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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.

Isaac Newton

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Isaac Newton

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Isaac Newton

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.

Isaac Newton

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Isaac Newton

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

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To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

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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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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Isaac Newton

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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Sources:Brainyquote

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13y ago

One of the quotes Isaac Newton said was "To stand on the shoulders of a gaints a place of discovery because of those who held him humble I shall be."

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Wrote on theology. Searched the Book of Revelation for clues to the future of mankind.

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Earth Moves

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