Isaac Newton
English Mathematician | December 25, 1642 - March 20, 1727
“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.”
“To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.”
“To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.”
“All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.”
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”
“To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.”
“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”
“If I have done great things it's because I was standing in the closet of smart men taking notes and then publishing their ideas as my own”
“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion”
“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion”
