Isaac Newton Quotes

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.

I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.

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 now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate.

I love the term 'young actress' because it just means that I don't know everything yet, and I hope I never do. I won't. I won't ever know everything.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

But I should not have to explain to you how important it is for science and simplicity to coexist. One must not fear to be a little child again, when times of wonder are at hand.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.

If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.