5 sourced quotes by Isaac Newton on truth & wisdom, science, technology & innovation, work, excellence & success, mind & self-awareness, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.
If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.
— Isaac NewtonLetter to Robert Hooke (15 February 1676) [dated as 5 February 1675 using the Julian calendar with March 25th rather than January 1st as New
Use itEssay on innovation; progress builds on predecessors' work—cumulative knowledge.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
— Isaac NewtonCited in Rules for methodizing the Apocalypse, Rule 9, from a manuscript published in The Religion of Isaac Newton (1974) by Frank E. Manuel
Use itEssay/GS2: simplicity in law and policy reveals truth better than complexity.
I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
— Isaac NewtonReply upon being asked how he made his discoveries, as quoted in "Biographia Britannica: Or the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who Have F
Use itLife: sustained focus on a problem until clarity slowly dawns.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, 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.
— Isaac NewtonMemoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton (1855) by Sir David Brewster (Volume II. Ch. 27). Compare: "As children g
Use itEssay conclusion on knowledge; humility before the vast unknown.