Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer,natural philosopher, alchemist and theologian, who has been “considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived.
Born: January 4, 1643, Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth
Died: March 31, 1727, Kensington
Full name: Isaac Newton
If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
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.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
