Isaac Newton

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

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.

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.