If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

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Isaac Newton
English natural philosopher born in 1643 who formulated universal gravitation and three laws of motion. His Principia established classical mechanics and remains a landmark of science.
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Isaac Newton's Other Quotes
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, 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.
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
I frame no hypotheses.
Related Quotes
I know that I do not know.
-- Plato
I know that I know nothing.
-- Socrates
The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete; it dwells in places others disdain, and so is close to the Tao.
-- Laozi
The trouble with people is that they love playing teacher to others.
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When three walk together, one is surely my teacher. I follow what is good and correct what is not.
-- Confucius
I transmit but do not create; I trust in and love the ancients.
-- Confucius