Sir isaac newton math quotes

...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.

Hypotheses non fingo.
I feign no hypotheses.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even
for any one age.

`Tis much better to do a little with certainty, and
leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things.
Quoted in G Simmons Calculus Gems(New York 1992).

The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics.

Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

[His epitaph:]

Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures
of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated.

If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
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