牛顿的名言

我不知道在别人看来，我是什么样的人；但在我自己看来，我不过就象是一个在海滨玩耍的小孩，为不时发现比寻常更为光滑的一块卵石或比寻常更为美丽的一片贝壳而沾沾自喜，而对于展现在我面前的浩瀚的真理的海洋，却全然没有发现。
　　——牛顿

　　如果说我比别人看得更远些,那是因为我站在了巨人的肩上.
　　——牛顿

　　from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.
　　Principia Mathematica.

　　Hypotheses non fingo.
　　I feign no hypotheses.
　　Principia Mathematica.

　　To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. `Tis much better to do a little with certainty, and leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things.
　　Quoted in G Simmons Calculus Gems (New York 1992).

　　The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
　　Principia Mathematica.

　　The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of natur