Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
“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 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.”
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
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.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Genius is patience.