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
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these computations, having no other business at the time.
The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.
The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.
The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contrary to them.
Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction, or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.
The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers.