Isaac Newton Quotes
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Newton, Isaac. Manuscript on Prophecy. Yahuda MS 1.1, fol. 14r, Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem. Published in Manuel, Frank E. The Religion of Isaac Newton. Clarendon Press, 1974, p. 120.
This quote is sometime attributed to Niels Bohr. No definitive citation has been found.
Sir Isaac Newton PRS was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author (described in his time as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the greatest mathematicians and most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing the infinitesimal calculus.