Isaac Newton Quotes

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.

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 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 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 could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

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.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

At a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about.

The more you learn, the more you learn you don't know.

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.

So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.

Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.

Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the beach while the whole ocean lies before us unexplored remains substantially as true as ever, and will do so though we shovel up the pebbles by steam shovels and carry them off in carloads.

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.

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.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.