Isaac Newton
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Mathematician and physicist who formulated the laws of motion, universal gravitation, and co-invented calculus, defining classical mechanics.
Wikipedia ↗“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
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Letter to Robert Hooke ↗ (1676)
“To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.”
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Principia Mathematica ↗ (1687)
“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 seashore, 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.”
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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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