Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. Newton's book...
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.