“O que sabemos é uma gota, o que ignoramos é um oceano.”
Em 1687, Explicando a sua Terceira Lei de Newton - Ação e Reação
Isaac Newton foi um astrônomo, alquimista, filósofo natural, teólogo e cientista inglês, mais reconhecido como físico e matemático.
Sua obra, Princípios Matemáticos da Filosofia Natural é considerada uma das mais influentes na história da ciência. Publicada em 1687, esta obra descreve a lei da gravitação universal e as três leis de Newton, que fundamentaram a mecânica clássica. Ao demonstrar a consistência que havia entre o sistema por si idealizado e as leis de Kepler do movimento dos planetas, foi o primeiro a demonstrar que os movimentos de objetos, tanto na Terra como em outros corpos celestes, são governados pelo mesmo conjunto de leis naturais. O poder unificador e profético de suas leis era centrado na revolução científica, no avanço do heliocentrismo e na difundida noção de que a investigação racional pode revelar o funcionamento mais intrínseco da natureza.
Newton construiu o primeiro telescópio refletor operacional e desenvolveu a teoria das cores baseada na observação que um prisma decompõe a luz branca em várias cores do espectro visível. Ele também formulou uma lei empírica de resfriamento e estudou a velocidade do som. Além de seu trabalho em cálculo infinitesimal, como matemático Newton contribuiu para o estudo das séries de potências, generalizou o teorema binomial para expoentes não inteiros, e desenvolveu o método de Newton para a aproximação das raízes de uma função, além de muitas outras contribuições importantes. Newton também dedicou muito de seu tempo ao estudo da alquimia e da cronologia bíblica, mas a maior parte de seu trabalho nessas áreas permaneceu não publicada até muito tempo depois de sua morte.
Em uma pesquisa promovida pela Royal Society, Newton foi considerado o cientista que causou maior impacto na história da ciência.
De personalidade sóbria, fechada e solitária, para ele a função da ciência era descobrir leis universais e enunciá-las de forma precisa e racional.
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“O que sabemos é uma gota, o que ignoramos é um oceano.”
Em 1687, Explicando a sua Terceira Lei de Newton - Ação e Reação
“Se vi mais longe foi por estar de pé sobre ombros de gigantes.”
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Fonte: Tiner, J.H. (1975). Isaac Newton: Inventor, Scientist and Teacher. Milford, Michigan, U.S.: Mott Media
“Platão é meu amigo; Aristóteles é meu amigo — mas meu melhor amigo é a verdade.”
Amicus Plato — amicus Aristoteles — magis amica veritas
Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae [Certain Philosophical Questions] (c. 1664)
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.
"Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton" (1855) por Sir David Brewster (Volume II. Ch. 27).
“Eu consigo calcular o movimento dos corpos celestiais, mas não a loucura das pessoas.”
I can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Depois de perder uma fortuna em especulando na Companhia Mar do Sul, conforme citado no " The Damn'd Mar do Sul http://www.harvardmag.com/mj99/damnd.html" Harvard Magazine (maio / junho 1999)
Fonte: Principia, Book III; citado em; Newton’s Philosophy of Nature: Selections from his writings, p. 42, ed. H.S. Thayer, Hafner Library of Classics, NY, 1953.
“Construímos muros demais e pontes de menos.”
We build too many walls and not enough bridges
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“Nenhuma grande descoberta foi feita jamais sem um palpite ousado.”
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess
citado em "The Palladium: a monthly journal" - Volume I, Página 151 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=GWQEAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA151, Edinburgh: James Hogg; London: R. Groombridge & Sons, 1850, 238 páginas
“Se fiz descobertas valiosas, foi mais por ter paciência do que qualquer outro talento.”
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
citado em "The Quarterly Magazine of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows, Manchester Unity" - Página 146 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=mrEEAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA146, de Independent Order of Odd Fellows Manchester Unity - Publicado por Published by the G.M. and Board of Directors, 1862, 260 páginas
(Achei!), mas "Isto é engraçado..."
Isaac Newton, conforme relatado por Singh, Simon - Big Bang - Editora Record - Rio de Janeiro / São Paulo - 2006. ISBN: 85-01-07213-3 - (pág. 334)
Atribuídas
Query 21
Opticks (1704)
Reply upon being asked how he made his discoveries, as quoted in " Biographia Britannica: Or the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who Have Flourished in Great Britain from the Earliest Ages Down to the Present Times, Volume 5 http://books.google.es/books?id=rYhDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA3241&dq=I+keep+the+subject+constantly+before+me+and+wait+till+the+first+dawnings+open+little+by+little+into+the+full+light.&hl=es&sa=X&ei=ZBsMUpiLDpPU8wTEkYGAAQ&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=I%20keep%20the%20subject%20constantly%20before%20me%20and%20wait%20till%20the%20first%20dawnings%20open%20little%20by%20little%20into%20the%20full%20light.&f=false", by W. Innys, (1760), p. 3241.
Vol. I, Ch. 7: Of the Eleventh Horn of Daniel's Fourth Beast
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John (1733)
“In default of any other proof, the thumb would convince me of the existence of a God.”
Reported as something said by Newton in Charles Dickens's All the Year Round https://books.google.es/books?id=bd0NAAAAQAAJ&q=%22the+thumb+would+convince+me+of+the+existence+of+a+God%22+dickens&dq=%22the+thumb+would+convince+me+of+the+existence+of+a+God%22+dickens&hl=es&sa=X&ei=fgHtVJ3BB4WXgwTAzoOwBA&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAA (1864), Vol. 10, p. 346; later found in " The Book of the Hand http://dds.crl.edu/loadStream.asp?iid=28101" (1867) by A R. Craig, S. Low and Marston, p. 51:
"In want of other proofs, the thumb would convince me of the existence of a God; as without the thumb the hand would be a defective and incomplete instrument, so without the moral will, logic, decision, faculties of which the thumb in different degrees offers the different signs, the most fertile and the most brilliant mind would only be a gift without worth."
A slight variant of this is cited as something Newton once "exclaimed" in Human Nature : An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective http://books.google.es/books?id=c6O0AAAAIAAJ&q=In+the+absence+of+any+other+proof,+the+thumb+alone+would+convince+me+of+God's+existence.&dq=In+the+absence+of+any+other+proof,+the+thumb+alone+would+convince+me+of+God's+existence.&hl=es&sa=X&ei=KAkMUuLjL-am2gWtnoHgDg&ved=0CFUQ6AEwBQ, Vol. 1, Issues 7-12 (1978), p. 47: "In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence."
Query 5
Opticks (1704)
Letter to Ignatius Pardies (1672) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Feb. 1671/2) as quoted by William L. Harper, Isaac Newton's Scientific Method: Turning Data Into Evidence about Gravity and Cosmology (2011)
Query 31
Opticks (1704)
Query 4
Opticks (1704)
Vol. I, Ch. 11: Of the Times of the Birth and Passion of Christ
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John (1733)
Query 1
Opticks (1704)
Preface
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
Drafts on the history of the Church (Section 3). Yahuda Ms. 15.3, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel. 2006 Online Version at Newton Project http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00220
Vol. I, Ch. 13: Of the King who did according to his will, and magnified himself above every God, and honored Mahuzzims, and regarded not the desire of women
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John (1733)
"Hypothesis explaining the Properties of Light" (1675)
Vol. I, Ch. 13: Of the King who did according to his will, and magnified himself above every God, and honored Mahuzzims, and regarded not the desire of women
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John (1733)
“Oh, Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest what mischief thou hast done!”
This is from an anecdote found in St. Nicholas magazine, Vol. 5, No. 4, (February 1878) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15331/15331-h/15331-h.htm :
Sir Isaac Newton had on his table a pile of papers upon which were written calculations that had taken him twenty years to make. One evening, he left the room for a few minutes, and when he came back he found that his little dog "Diamond" had overturned a candle and set fire to the precious papers, of which nothing was left but a heap of ashes.
"Hypothesis explaining the Properties of Light" (1675)
Four Letters to Bentley (1692) first letter
Vol. I, Ch. 12: Of the Prophecy of the Scripture of Truth
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John (1733)
“If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.”
This first appears in the Isaac Newton : A Biography (1934), citing unpublished papers by John Conduitt reporting an anecdote of an occassion where Conduitt asked Newton where he obtained the tools to make his reflecting telescope. Newton is said to have laughed and replied, "If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me I had never made anything of it."
Disputed
Isaac Newton, cited in The Watchtower magazine, 1977, 4/15.
Laws of Motion, I
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
Query 13
Opticks (1704)
“Whence are you certain that ye Ancient of Days is Christ? Does Christ anywhere sit upon ye Throne?”
He wrote in discussing with John Locke the passage of Daniel 7:9. The Correspondence of Isaac Newton, Vol. III, Letter 362. Cited in The Watchtower magazine, 1977, 4/15, article: Isaac Newton’s Search for God.
Vol. I, Ch. 8: Of the power of the eleventh horn of Daniel's fourth Beast, to change times and laws
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John (1733)
Query 21
Opticks (1704)
“God created everything by number, weight and measure.”
Numero pondere et mensura Deus omnia condidit.
As quoted in Symmetry in Plants (1998) by Roger V. Jean and Denis Barabé, p. xxxvii, a translation of a Latin phrase he wrote in a student's notebook, elsewhere given as Numero pondere et mensura Deus omnia condidit. This is similar to Latin statements by Thomas Aquinas, and even more ancient statements of the Greek philosopher Pythagoras. See also Wisdom of Solomon 11:20 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Wisdom_of_Solomon#Chapter_11
Query 20
Opticks (1704)
Of Idolatry
A short Schem of the true Religion