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
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.
I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.
The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.
I feign no hypotheses.
Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
The system of revealed truth which this Book contains is like that of the universe, concealed from common observation yet...the centuries have established its Divine origin.
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
If I saw further than other men, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
The word 'God' usually signifies 'Lord', but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.