"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."
—Sir Isaac Newton (4 January 1643 - 31 March 1727)

quoted in "Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton" (1855) by Sir David Brewster (Volume II, Ch. 27)

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🎙️ ✨ A new episode has been published on @ITSPmagazine

Show: Stories From Space With Matthew S Williams

Episode: The Newtonian Revolution

Podcast format: Audio

Enjoy!

👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/stories-from-space-podcast

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Born on This Day !!

Sir Isaac Newton.

Sir Isaac Newton, (OS) 25 December 1642 – (OS) 20 March 1726 was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, recognized as one of the greatest mathematicians and physicists and among the most influential scientists of all time.

Newton was the first scientist to be buried at Westminster Abbey. This is what it reads on his tomb:

"H. S. E. ISAACUS NEWTON Eques Auratus, / Qui, animi vi prope divinâ, / Planetarum Motus, Figuras, / Cometarum semitas, Oceanique Aestus. Suâ Mathesi facem praeferente / Primus demonstravit: / Radiorum Lucis dissimilitudines, / Colorumque inde nascentium proprietates, / Quas nemo antea vel suspicatus erat, pervestigavit. / Naturae, Antiquitatis, S. Scripturae, / Sedulus, sagax, fidus Interpres / Dei O. M. Majestatem Philosophiâ asseruit, / Evangelij Simplicitatem Moribus expressit. / Sibi gratulentur Mortales, / Tale tantumque exstitisse / HUMANI GENERIS DECUS. / NAT. XXV DEC. A.D. MDCXLII. OBIIT. XX. MAR. MDCCXXVI"

"Here is buried Isaac Newton, Knight, who by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the tides of the sea, the dissimilarities in rays of light, and, what no other scholar has previously imagined, the properties of the colours thus produced. Diligent, sagacious and faithful, in his expositions of nature, antiquity and the holy Scriptures, he vindicated by his philosophy the majesty of God mighty and good, and expressed the simplicity of the Gospel in his manners. Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great an ornament of the human race! He was born on 25th December 1642, and died on 20th March 1726."

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https://explorelincolnshire.co.uk/grantham/monuments-and-memorials/sir-isaac-newton-statue-35822.html)

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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy - Sir Isaac Newton

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