1. "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
2. "What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean."
3. "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
4. "Truth is the offspring of science and time."
5. "To every action, there is always an equal and opposite reaction."
6. "Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy."
7. "Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion."
8. "The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."
9. "We build too many walls and not enough bridges."
10. "No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess."
11. "To me, there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."
12. "The one thing I do not like about technology is that it hasn’t been around long enough to know if it’s good or bad."
13. "If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."
14. "A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true."
15. "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction."
16. "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."
17. "If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made a little book, concise, but full of knowledge."
18. "Nature is a vast machinery of which the parts are beautifully and harmoniously arranged."
19. "For every effect, there is a cause."
20. "The most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent Being."
21. "Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."
22. "In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence."
23. "All my life, I have been engrossed in the search after truth."
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