"To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you."
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Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) was a groundbreaking mathematician, physicist, and astronomer whose work laid the foundation for classical mechanics. Born in Woolsthorpe, England, he attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where his curiosity blossomed into revolutionary theories. Newton’s seminal works, including the laws of motion and universal gravitation, transformed our understanding of the natural world. His magnum opus, "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica," remains a cornerstone of scientific thought. Newton's legacy endures, inspiring generations of scientists and thinkers to explore the mysteries of the universe.
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"Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance."
Isaac Newton"In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence."
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 seashore, 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."
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"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."
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"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."
Isaac Newton"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
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"The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun."
Isaac Newton"The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contrary to them."
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"I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business."
Isaac Newton"It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change."
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