Frases de Isaac Newton
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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. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. Janeiro 1643 – 31. Março 1727   •   Outros nomes Sir Isaac Newton
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Isaac Newton Frases famosas

“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.

“A gravidade explica os movimentos dos planetas, mas não pode explicar quem colocou os planetas em movimento. Deus governa todas as coisas e sabe tudo que é ou que pode ser feito.”

Fonte: Tiner, J.H. (1975). Isaac Newton: Inventor, Scientist and Teacher. Milford, Michigan, U.S.: Mott Media

Citações de verdade de Isaac Newton

“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)

“Eu não sei como eu posso parecer ao mundo, mas para mim, eu pareço ser apenas como uma criança brincando na beira do mar, divertindo-me e encontrando um seixo mais liso ou uma concha mais bonita do que o ordinário, enquanto o grande oceano da verdade permanece todo indescoberto diante de mim.”

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).

Isaac Newton frases e citações

“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)

“A maravilhosa disposição e harmonia do universo só pode ter tido origem segundo o plano de um Ser que tudo sabe e tudo pode. Isso fica sendo a minha última e mais elevada descoberta.”

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

“A frase mais excitante que se ouve na ciência, aquela que anuncia novas descobertas, não é "Heureka!”

(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)
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Isaac Newton: Frases em inglês

“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.”

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.

“Upon Christmas-day, the people of Rome, who had hitherto elected their Bishop, and reckoned that they and their Senate inherited the rights of the ancient Senate and people of Rome, voted Charles their Emperor, and subjected themselves to him in such manner as the old Roman Empire and their Senate were subjected to the old Roman Emperors. The Pope [Leo III] crowned him, and anointed him with holy oil, and worshiped him on his knees after the manner of adoring the old Roman Emperors… The Emperor, on the other hand, took the following oath to the Pope: In nomine Christi spondeo atque polliceor, Ego Carolus Imperator coram Deo & beato Petro Apostolo, me protectorem ac defensorem fore hujus sanctæ Romanæ Ecclesiæ in omnibus utilitatibus, quatenùs divino fultus fuero adjutorio, prout sciero poteroque. The Emperor was also made Consul of Rome, and his son Pipin crowned King of Italy: and henceforward the Emperor styled himself: Carolus serenissimus, Augustus, à Deo coronatus, magnus, pacificus, Romæ gubernans imperium [Charles, most serene Augustus crowned by God, the great, peaceful emperor ruling the Roman empire], or Imperator Romanorum [Emperor of the Romans]; and was prayed for in the Churches of Rome. His image was henceforward put upon the coins of Rome: while the enemies of the Pope, to the number of three hundred Romans and two or three of the Clergy, were sentenced to death. The three hundred Romans were beheaded in one day in the Lateran fields: but the Clergymen at the intercession of the Pope were pardoned, and banished into France. And thus the title of Roman Emperor, which had hitherto been in the Greek Emperors, was by this act transferred in the West to the Kings of France.”

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."

“Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all else being equal] strongest at the least distance?”

Isaac Newton livro Opticks, or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light

Query 1
Opticks (1704)

“The same King [Greek Empire] placed holiness in abstinence from marriage. Eusebius in his Ecclesiastical history tells us, that Musanus wrote a tract against those who fell away to the heresy of the Encratites, which was then newly risen, and had introduced pernicious errors; and that Tatian, the disciple of Justin, was the author thereof; and that Irenæus in his first book against heresies teaches this… But although the followers of Tatian were at first condemned as heretics by the name of Encratites, or Continentes; their principles could not be yet quite exploded: for Montanus refined upon them, and made only second marriages unlawful; he also introduced frequent fastings, and annual, fasting days, the keeping of Lent, and feeding upon dried meats. The Apostolici, about the middle of the third century, condemned marriage, and were a branch of the disciples of Tatian. The Hierocitæ in Egypt, in the latter end of the third century, also condemned marriage. Paul the Eremite [Hermit] fled into the wilderness from the persecution of Decius, and lived there a solitary life till the reign of Constantine the great, but made no disciples. Antony did the like in the persecution of Dioclesian, or a little before, and made disciples; and many others soon followed his example.”

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.

“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

“Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.”

Isaac Newton livro Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

Laws of Motion, I
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)

“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.

“In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian, and again in the reign of Phocas, the Bishop of Rome obtained some dominion over the Greek Churches, but of no long continuance. His standing dominion was only over the nations of the Western Empire, represented by Daniel's fourth Beast.”

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)

“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

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