The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James… — David Antin Copy Share Image
You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do,… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
Sitting next to Olivia Newton-John, I was like, 'Do not sing one song from Grease.' That's all I was telling my brain… — Caroline Rhea Copy Share Image
“Newton, as we have said, was the promoter of a Design Argument based upon the precision and universality of the laws of… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence. — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
I like the drawings. And as a photography fan myself, I would look at Helmut Newton or Irving Penn and like to… — Miles Aldridge Copy Share Image
Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius… — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
“Newton was born on Christmas Day, 1642, so tiny that, as his mother told him years later, he would have fit into… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I suppose I like to set myself projects that are tight, focused, and then challenge myself with how broad I can go… — Miles Aldridge Copy Share Image
“As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement… — Frederick the Great Copy Share Image
“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Things that look like they were designed, probably were... If intelligence is an operative component of the universe, a science that methodologically… — Donald L. Ewert Copy Share Image
Knowledge is inherent in man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“So my doctor told me to watch what I'm eating - to read food labels. I'm in the store reading the Fig… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I do not mind at all that Newton is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of… — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've… — Michael Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Newton’s third law – the only way humans have ever figured out of getting somewhere is to leave something behind.” — Christopher J. Nolan Copy Share Image
I think it would have been much better if Newton had contemplated how the apple got up there in the first place! — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
“If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. SIR ISAAC NEWTON” — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term. — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz,… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy Copy Share Image
Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics. ... — W. W. Rouse Ball Copy Share Image
Newton's Third Law of Conversation, if it existed, would hold that every statement implies an equal and opposite statement. To say that… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image