Isaac Newton

Mathematician

1642-12-25 – 1727-03-31

Isaac Newton was an English mathematician and physicist whose work transformed mechanics, optics, and astronomy. His formulation of the laws of motion and universal gravitation became foundational to classical physics.

Quotes by Isaac Newton

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants
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eorum omnium actiones in se invicem
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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 will of a Being, necessarily existing.
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How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts?Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch'd, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?
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What goes up must come down.
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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 of the book.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
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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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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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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 sea-shore, and diverting myself in 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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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
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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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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts?Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch'd, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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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 sea-shore, and diverting myself in 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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