Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
53 Quotes
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
Isaac Newton The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713
"To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age"
Isaac Newton
"A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub.(from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)"
Isaac Newton
"Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light."
Isaac Newton
"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
Isaac Newton
"If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants"
Isaac Newton
"eorum omnium actiones in se invicem"
Isaac Newton
"What goes up must come down."
Isaac Newton
"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion."
Isaac Newton
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people."
Isaac Newton
"Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
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 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."
Isaac Newton
"Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy"
Isaac Newton
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