Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus, although he developed calculus years before Leibniz. Newton contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science.
WikipediaIsaac Newton Quotes (6)
"What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean."
View quote details →"No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess."
View quote details →"The best way to understanding is a few good examples."
View quote details →"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
View quote details →"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."
View quote details →"To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation."
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