“Amicus Plato — amicus Aristoteles — magis amica veritas”
— Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.
“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
— Cited in Rules for methodizing the Apocalypse, Rule 9, from a manuscript published in The Religion of Isaac Newton (1974) by Frank E. Manuel, p. 120, as quoted in Socinianism And Arminianism : Antitrinitarians, Calvinists, And Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Europe (2005) by Martin Mulsow, Jan Rohls, p. 273.
“If Sir Isaac Newton had not been distinguished as a mathematician and a natural philosopher, he would have enjoyed a high reputation as a theologian.”
— Sir. David Brewster, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton (1855) Vol. 2.
“Newton had other postulates by which he could get the law of angular momentum, but Newtonian laws were wrong. There's no forces, it's all a lot of balony. The particles don't have orbits, and so on.”
— Richard Feynman, "The Relation of Mathematics to Physics," The Character of Physical Law, Messenger Lectures (1964)
“At the end of the [19th] century no extension or analogue of the Newtonian gravitation formula has been generally accepted, and it still stands there as almost the only firmly established mathematical relation, expressive of a property of all matter, to which the progress of more than two centuries has added nothing, from which it has taken nothing away.”
— John Theodore Merz, A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century (1903) Vol.1
“He was unhappy with the relativity of motion, even though it is a consequence of his equations, and to escape it he postulated the existence of "absolute" space, with respect to which true rest and motion are defined.”
— Frank Wilczek, The Lightness of Being (2008)

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