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 than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
Isaac Newton
Born: January 4, 1643 Died: March 31, 1727
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. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing infinitesimal calculus.
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being...
This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont, to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ or Universal Ruler.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.
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.
Lo que sabemos es una gota de agua; lo que ignoramos es un océano.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
You have to make the rules, not follow them
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation