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 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.

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 sea‑shore, 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 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 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 understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!

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

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

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

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

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

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

Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.