Creative Quotations from . . .
Isaac Newton
(1642-1727) born on Dec 25
English "mathematician, philosopher". "He was first to describe the laws of motion and universal gravitation; also invented the reflecting telescope, 1668."
 
   
F
I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, 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."

R
I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.
A
"The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree."
N
"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."
K
"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than any other talent."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Memoirs of Newton, vol. 2, ch. 27 (ed. by David Brewster, 1855)."
R: "In "The Correspondence of Isaac Newton," ed. by H. W. Turnbull and J. F. Scott, 1959-1974."
A: "In "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations," ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
N: "In "The Correspondence of Isaac Newton," ed. by H. W. Turnbull and J. F. Scott, 1959-1974."
K: "In "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations," ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."



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