Isaac Newton Quotes

“Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.”

“Newton (that proverb of the mind), alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great ocean—Truth”

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”