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Isaac Newton Quotes

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Isaac Newton, one of history’s most influential scientists, transformed our understanding of the natural world through his groundbreaking work in physics and mathematics. His quotes reflect his curiosity, humility, and dedication to the pursuit of knowledge and discovery. Together, they offer insight into the mindset of a thinker whose ideas continue to shape science and human understanding.

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.
From Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light-Based on the Fourth Edition London, 1730
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Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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.
From The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.
From Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light-Based on the Fourth Edition London, 1730
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Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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.
From The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.
From Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light-Based on the Fourth Edition London, 1730
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Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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.
From The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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