Newton’s breakthroughs were not born from instant inspiration but from years of meticulous observation, calculation, ...

Discover the Quote of the Day by Isaac Newton, learn about his life, famous quotes, and how his words continue to inspire ...

A new online Isaac Newton archive sheds light on an era where science, theology, alchemy and plain old black magic was all intertwined, Liz Williams reports for the Guardian. Back in the day, our ...

Today, we celebrate the birthday of one of the most important human beings to walk the face of the Earth. On this day, in 1642, Sir Isaac Newton was born. He would be 371. Newton was a physicist and ...

Isaac Newton’s 17th century book, the Principia, gave the famed English scientist a reputation: “[T]here goes the man that writt a book that neither he nor any body else understands,” a Cambridge ...

A curious thing happened to Isaac Newton on the way to a grand new exhibition at the New York Public Library, “The Newtonian Moment: Science and the Making of Modern Culture.” He seems to have gone ...

Science texts aren't normally top earners at auctions, but Christie's just proved that there are major exceptions to this rule. The auction house has sold a first edition of Isaac Newton's 1687 ...

Famous scientist Sir Isaac Newton predicted the world will end in 2060 in a chilling letter scrawled above a maths calculation more than 300 years ago. The renowned scientist, who discovered gravity ...

If you asked people strolling down Fifth Avenue to name a genius, most would probably cite Albert Einstein. "Ask them to name another one, it would be (Isaac) Newton," said Mordechai Feingold, curator ...

While you were cheerily celebrating Christmas Day, Neil DeGrasse Tyson was inserting a little scientific stuffing into your turkey of tradition. The astrophysicist and "Cosmos" presenter chose ...

Today, on April 15, in 1726, English antiquarian William Stukeley visited Sir Isaac Newton, a day he would recall after Newton's death in his 1752 book, Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life. They ...