▶ 1643; January 1643; January 4th 1643; the United Kingdom; England; …
▶ 1727; March 1727; March 31st 1727; the United Kingdom; London; …
▶ "We build too many walls and not enough bridges."; "We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances."; "To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."; "To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."; "To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."; …"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."; "It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."; "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."; "If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."; "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."; "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."; "Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."; "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."
