Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton PRSwas an English physicist and mathematicianwho is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, laid the foundations for classical mechanics. Newton made seminal contributions to optics, and he shares credit with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for the development of calculus...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth4 January 1643
CityWoolsthorpe, England
An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.