About Isaac Newton:

Sir Isaac Newton is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"), first published in 1687, laid the foundations for classical mechanics. Newton made seminal contributions to optics, and he shares credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of calculus.

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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Isaac Newton

God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be s...

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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

Isaac Newton

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Isaac Newton

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Isaac Newton

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe ...

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Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and w...

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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

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's laws, although not rigidly true, are sufficiently near to the truth to have led to the discovery of the law of attraction of the bodies of the solar system. The deviation from complete accuracy is due to the facts, that the planets are not of inap...

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To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Isaac Newton

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

Isaac Newton

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Isaac Newton

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth...

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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.

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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

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

Isaac Newton

Author Bio

NameIsaac Newton
DescriptionBritish physicist and founder of modern classical physics
AliasesNewton; Sir Isaac Newton
BornJanuary 4, 1643
DiedMarch 31, 1727
CountryKingdom Of England; Kingdom Of Great Britain
ProfessionMathematician; Physicist; Philosopher; Astronomer; Theologian; Innovator; Alchemist; Politician; Polymath

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