Introduction,
Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who is widely considered to be one of the most influential scientists in history. He was born on January 4, 1643, in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England. His father died just three months before he was born, and he was raised by his mother and grandmother.
Newton attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics and developed his theories of calculus and the laws of motion. He went on to become a professor of mathematics at the university and was later appointed as the Warden of the Royal Mint in London.
Newton is best known for his work in physics, where he is credited with discovering the laws of motion and gravitation. His famous book, “Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica,” published in 1687, is considered to be one of the most important works in the history of science.
Newton died on March 31, 1727, in London, at the age of 84. His legacy as a scientific genius continues to influence and inspire scientists and researchers around the world.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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 lay all undiscovered before me.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
What goes up must come down.
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Genius is patience.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
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.
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‘Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.
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 now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.
All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‘Lord God.’
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter.
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.
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.
God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.
Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
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 lay all undiscovered before me.
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
I can apply myself to the mathematics because it is a study where, having once mastered it, one neither gets tired of it nor finds it unprofitable.
What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
What goes up must come down.
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
I have a way of investigating things which is not very common among mankind.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
