Isaac Newton

1643–1727 · English mathematician and physicist

Topics: simplicity, learning, mathematics

• In Constructions that are equally Geometrical, the most simple are always to be preferr'd. This Law is so universal as to be without Exception. But Algebraick Expressions add nothing to the Simplicity of the Construction

  — Isaac Newton

• Geometry was invented that we might expeditiously avoid, by drawing Lines, the Tediousness of Computation.

  — Isaac Newton

• Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

  — Isaac Newton

• The Simplicity of Figures depend upon the Simplicity of their Genesis and Ideas, and an Æquation is nothing else than a Description (either Geometrical or Mechanical) by which a Figure is generated and rendered more easy to the Conception.

  — Isaac Newton

• If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.

  — Isaac Newton

• I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses;

  — Isaac Newton