Isaac Newton

HOME	Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. “Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.” “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.” If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success. If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought. Genius is patience. Isaac Newton 1642 to 1726 (84)
Sir Isaac Newton PRS MP (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/7[1]) was an English physicist and mathematician (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"), first published in 1687, laid the foundations for classical mechanics. Newton made seminal contributions to optics, and he shares credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of calculus.

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Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”
“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.”
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Genius is patience.

Isaac Newton 1642 to 1726 (84)

Sir Isaac Newton PRS MP (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/7[1]) was an English physicist and mathematician (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"), first published in 1687, laid the foundations for classical mechanics. Newton made seminal contributions to optics, and he shares credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of calculus.