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1643–1727 England
Sir Isaac Newton (January 4, 1643 – March 31, 1727 or in Old Style: December 25, 1642 – March 20, 1727) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author (described in his time as a "natural philosopher"), widely recognised as one of the greatest mathematicians and physicists and among the most influential scientists of all time. He was a key figure in the philosophical revolution known as the Enlightenment.
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Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
Symmetry in Plants (1998)
I have studied these things — you have not.
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age...
The investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of composition.
Austin Allibone ed. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay (1903)
If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.
I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
And thus much concerning God; to discourse of whom from the appearances of things, does certainly belong to Natural Philosophy.
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1729)
I have that honour for him as to believe that he wrote good sense; and therefore take that sense to be his which is the best.
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 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.
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure remarks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.
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.
The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
Whence are you certain that ye Ancient of Days is Christ? Does Christ anywhere sit upon ye Throne?
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition.
Opticks (1704)
But it is not the Æquation, but the Description that makes the Curve to be a Geometrical one.
Arithmetica Universalis (1707)
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