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Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist who formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation in Principia (1687). Master of the Royal Mint; lived 1643–1727.

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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac Newtonscience

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

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