How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts? Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.Ģ2. 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. Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.Ģ1. To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before meĢ0. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.ġ9. Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. You have to make the rules, not follow themġ8. He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God but he who really thinks has to believe in God.ġ7. Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanationġ6. If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talentġ5. and to every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reactionġ3. A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.ġ2. 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 Rulerġ1. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being… No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.ġ0. Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.ĩ. Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.Ĩ. What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.ħ.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.Ħ. I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.Ĥ. 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.ģ. If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.Ģ.
He also formulated an empirical law of cooling and studied the speed of sound. In optics, he invented the reflecting telescope and developed a theory of colour based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into a visible spectrum. In mechanics, Newton enunciated the principles of conservation of momentum and angular momentum. Newton showed that the motions of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws by demonstrating the consistency between Kepler’s laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravitation, thus removing the last doubts about heliocentrism and advancing the scientific revolution. In this work, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics, which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries and is the basis for modern engineering. His Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, is considered to be the most influential book in the history of science.
… I believe that Newton could hold a problem in his head for hours and days and weeks until it surrendered to him its secret. I fancy his pre-eminence is due to his muscles of intuition being the strongest and most enduring with which a man has ever been gifted. His peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen straight through it. His peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen it through.
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