Isaac Newton Quotes
Mathematician and Physicist
Isaac Newton was mathematician and physicist from Great Britain
“The plague took my university. Solitude gave me calculus and gravity. The best work happens when there is nowhere left to run.”— Isaac Newton
Based on Newton's Annus Mirabilis 1665-1666. When plague closed Cambridge, he returned to Woolsthorpe and invented calculus, discovered light composition, and began formulating gravity.
The Story of Isaac
March 31, 1727
Newton died on March 31, 1727, in London. He was eighty-four. He had served as Warden of the Royal Mint, President of the Royal Society, and Member of Parliament. He was knighted by Queen Anne. He never married. He had almost no close friends. He spent his final decades in bitter feuds with Leibniz over calculus and with Hooke over optics. The man who explained the motion of every object in the universe could not navigate a single human relationship without conflict.
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