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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton
Art
Enemy
Tact
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.
Isaac Newton
Man
May
Understanding
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Isaac Newton
Art
Errors
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Isaac Newton
People
Madness
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.
Isaac Newton
Truth
Now
Ocean
Sea
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Isaac Newton
Thought
Public
Service
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
Isaac Newton
Numbers
Weight
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Isaac Newton
Action
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Isaac Newton
Science
Honor
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
Truth
Lie
Beach
Oceans
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
Isaac Newton
Causes
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
Giants