Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man has as good be engaged in law suits as have to do with her (letter to Edmund Halley)
Philosophy |
Sir Isaac Newton quoteI do not feign hypotheses (Principia Mathematica)
Sir Isaac Newton quote To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts. (Principia Mathematica)
Action |
Sir Isaac Newton quoteIf I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Sir Isaac Newton quote I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Sir Isaac Newton quote If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Sir Isaac Newton quote Biography
English mathematician and physicist, who is responsible for the theory of gravity
