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Collection of Best Isaac Newton Quotes, Biography, Discoveries, Fun facts

About Isaac Newton:

Sir Isaac Newton was a British physicist, English mathematician, theologian, astronomer, and author who is widely known as not only one of the greatest mathematicians but also a physicist and most influential scientist of all time. Sir Isaac Newton was a key figure in the philosophical revolution known as the Enlightenment. He was born on 4 January 1643 – and died on 31 March 1727.

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Inventions of Isaac Newton :

  1. Isaac Newton discovered the laws of motion and gravity.
  2. He invented calculus in mathematics.
  3. Sir Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope, which helps astronomers see more clearly far-away objects of far-away galaxies.
  4. Sir Isaac Newton invented the basic principles of modern physics.
  5. Although Sir Isaac Newton is well known for discovering compound colours of white light.

Fun facts You Should Know About Isaac Newton:

  1. His rough childhood helps to build his secretive personality.
  2. Newton’s mother always wanted him to be a farmer, But his dream was different.
  3.  As a professor at Cambridge, Nobody attends his lectures with great attention.

Top Isaac Newton Quotes of All Time:

  1. I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. – Isaac Newton
  2. Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation. – Isaac Newton
  3. Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. – Isaac Newton
  4. What we know is a drop; what we don’t know is an ocean. – Isaac Newton
  5. Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. – Isaac Newton
  6. If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.- Isaac Newton
  7. 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
  8. Truth is ever to be found in simplicity and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. – Isaac Newton
  9. In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence. – Isaac Newton
  10. I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me. -Isaac Newton
  11. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. -Isaac Newton
  12. No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. -Isaac Newton
  13. All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer. – Isaac Newton
  14. The other part of true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as ourselves, we must be charitable to all men for charity is the greatest of graces, greater than even faith or hope & covers a multitude of sins. We must be righteous & do to all men as we would they should do to us. – Isaac Newton
  15. If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work. – Isaac Newton
  16. There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history. -Isaac Newton
  17. A Heavenly Master governs all the world as Sovereign of the universe. We are astonished at Him by reason of His perfection; we honour Him and fall down before Him because of His unlimited power. From blind physical necessity, which is always and everywhere the same, no variety adhering to time and place could evolve, and all variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, Whom I call the Lord God. – Isaac Newton
  18. My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success. – Isaac Newton
  19. Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. – Isaac Newton
  20. He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God, but he who really thinks has to believe in God. – Isaac Newton
  21. To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation. – Isaac Newton
  22. Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances. – Isaac Newton