Quotes:
All science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test the infallible criterion, by which any presumed science is ascertained to be actually and verily science. The ptolemaic astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came science and prophecy.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.
-Sir Hermann Bondi
Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days, we stand on each other's feet!
-Richard Hamming
This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton.
-Albert Einstein
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www.math.fu-berlin.de/rd/ag/isaac/newton/newtlife.html
All science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test the infallible criterion, by which any presumed science is ascertained to be actually and verily science. The ptolemaic astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came science and prophecy.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.
-Sir Hermann Bondi
Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days, we stand on each other's feet!
-Richard Hamming
This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton.
-Albert Einstein
Additional websites:
www.bbc.co.uk
www.biography.com
www.math.fu-berlin.de/rd/ag/isaac/newton/newtlife.html
Concluding statement:
In the end, most can agree that Sir Isaac Newton was a very important person in history. His discoveries helped modernize the world. His PHILOSOPHIAE NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA was a major step forward in the world of science. His ideas also helped others develop new theories and make new discoveries. We have used his theories to help us create inventions that benefit the world, and if he was never born, it might have taken even longer for the world to modernize.