Isaac Newton Quotes

I could not have told where those damned islands were within 2,000 miles.

So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." I said "No, just a watch."

Let's stop the startwatch.

It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more.

... the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.

I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch,— This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.

Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.

It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings. Alan Bishop

An ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three."

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?

Psycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have forgotten to read the stars and sea. They may be able to get from the galley to the head but will be lost in their journey from point to port.

I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.

In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel.

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. Which means that a place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east

There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.

A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.