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Isaac Newton (1643-1727) is best known for his contributions to physics and mathematics, but he also made contributions to optics and natural philosophy. Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, England. His father died before he was born and his mother remarried when he was three years old. At age 12, Newton received a scholarship to Trinity College at Cambridge University.
He began his research in mathematics and optics and later discovered the theory of gravitation while still at Trinity College when he observed an apple fall from a tree in an orchard as it ripened.
Newton is often considered one of the most influential scientists in history. He was responsible for developing calculus, classical mechanics, and laws of motion. Moreover, he discovered that white light consists of colors and studied the refraction of light through a prism.
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61 Inspiring Isaac Newton Quotes
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
“To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction.”
“Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.”
“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
“Live your life as an exclamation rather than an explanation.”
“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.”
“The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the True One.”
“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.”
“You have to make the rules, not follow them.”
“Don’t doubt the Creator because it is inconceivable that accidents alone could be the controller of this universe.”
“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.”
“It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.”
“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.”
“As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.”
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”
“Genius is patience.”
“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”
“God created everything by number, weight, and measure.”
“The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree.”
“To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.”
“Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation”
“If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.”
“To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.”
“Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.”
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
“I believe the more I study science, the more I believe in God.”
“This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.”
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”
“They who search after the Philosopher’s Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.”
“What goes up must come down.”
“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess“
“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.”
“Tis much better to do a little with certainty and leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of anything.”
“To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.”
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
“It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.”
“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.”
“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
“We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.”
“An object that is at rest will tend to remain at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to remain in motion unless acted upon by an outside force.”
“My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.”
“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”
“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
“Inherent force of matter is the power of resisting by which everybody, so far as it is able, perseveres in its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.”
“A passion for calculus can unlock new worlds.”
“The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.”
“Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait ’til the first dawning opens slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.”
“Gravity explains the motions of the planets but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.”
“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.”
“He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”
“Gravity must be caused by an agent…but whether that agent be material or immaterial I leave to my readers.”
“You have to make the rules, not follow them”
“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”
“Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.”
“To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.”
“Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world.”
“If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.”
“The moon gravitates towards the earth, and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.”
“What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.”
“Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?”
