The History of Sir Isaac Newton

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Newton statue on display at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History

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Newton's grave in Westminster Abbey

Newton's grave in Westminster Abbey

Newton's grave in Westminster Abbey

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"Threatening my [step-]father and mother Smith to burn them and the house over them." --From a list of his sins made by Isaac Newton at age 19.

"Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my best friend is truth." --Head of Newton's Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae (Certain Philosophical Questions), ca. 1664.

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"I know not what I 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, whilest the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." --Quoted in D Brewster, Memoirs of Newton

"Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, Let Newton be! and all was light." --Alexander Pope