Isaac Newton quotes and words of wisdom

"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"
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"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants."
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Interesting Quotes

The three fundamental Rules of Robotics...One: a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm...Two:..a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law...Three: a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws.Isaac Asimov - US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 - 1992)

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.Antoine de Saint-Exupery - French writer (1900 - 1944)