Tuesday, March 20, 2012

words of an Englishman

SIR ISAAC NEWTON

We build too many walls
and not enough bridges.

If I have done the public any service,
it is due to my patient thought.

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.