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, 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.

Isaac Newton

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

Isaac Newton (Letter to Robert Hooke, 1676)

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Isaac Newton (Notes - Certain Philosophical Questions, 1664) 

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