The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it. — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics? — Mark Hyman Copy Share Image
Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
“I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part… — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Helmut Newton shot the ad campaign [for Bad Influence]. It's [James] Spader at the top of his game, right after Sex, Lies… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was. (Enoch Root observes six-year-old Isaac Newton)” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Ever since Sir Isaac Newton's times, scientists have worked in the same sort of way: They show a great respect for experiment… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“...But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“It is good to recall that three centuries ago, around the year 1660, two of the greatest monuments of modern history were… — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Human nature with all its infirmities and deprivation is still capable of great things. It is capable of attaining to degrees of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Does the engineer ever predict the acceleration of a given body from a knowledge of its mass and of the forces acting… — Brian Ellis Copy Share Image
“Always preoccupied with his profound researches, the great Newton showed in the ordinary-affairs of life an absence of mind which has become… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
“ Newton supposed that the case of the planet was similar to that of [a ball spun around on the end of… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, if, as the result of certain combinations, Kepler 's or Newton 's discoveries could become known to people in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton. — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
Olivia Newton-John - Australia's gift to insomniacs. It's nothing but the blonde singing the bland. — Minnie Riperton Copy Share Image
I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake? — James Merrill Copy Share Image
“Space and Time! Two minor omissions that no one is likely to notice," grumbled Newton.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early… — Julian Schwinger Copy Share Image
On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642 — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
'Amazing Grace' is about the man who wrote 'Amazing Grace,' John Newton. It's a really great show - I have been workshopping… — Josh Young Copy Share Image