Sir Isaac Newton once wrote, in what must be one of the most oft-quoted lines in the history of science, "If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." Well, any of us ...

Isaac Newton This inward, quarrelsome man, who often forgot to eat his meals, invented the calculus and laid the foundations of mechanics and optics—all in 18 "golden" months after graduating ...

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe ... For example, rather than trust texts on optics, he experimented by sticking a bodkin – a blunt needle – in his eye to see its ...

ISAAC NEWTON: Yo, yo, yo, I'm Isaac Newton and the ... My laws of motion and my theories on optics and the eye. [sniggers] Okay, it might not be for another twenty years, but uh do watch this ...

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe in the parish of Colsterworth ... differential and integral calculus), optics, mechanics, and astronomy place him at the very forefront of all scientists. His ...