Quotes from authors passed in 1727
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
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
Isaac Newton
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Isaac Newton
Christian Bale 
Hugh Lofting 
Annabella Sciorra 
Parris Glendening 
John Baldacci 
Barbara Castle 
John Boorman 
Richard Brinsley Sheridan Authors that died in 1727