Quotes from authors born in 1642
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Isaac Newton
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
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.
Isaac Newton
Hope is a very thin diet.
Thomas Shadwell
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
Isaac Newton
Mike Oldfield 
Tony Oliva 
Marie Carmichael Stopes 
Jim Gerlach 
Radclyffe Hall 
Richard M. Sherman 
Marina Tsvetaeva 
Della Reese