In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
FACT: The Priory of Sion - a European secret society founded in 1099 - is a real organization. In 1975 Paris's Bibliothque… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The landscape has been so totally changed, the ways of thinking have been so deeply affected, that it is very hard to… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier ,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In fact, I wasn't going to dance in Xanadu, but several journalists told me that Olivia Newton-John kept saying how sad she… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
If I ask you who is the most famous scientist who ever lived, or the greatest scientist who ever lived you'll say… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction;… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud,… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
“When Isaac Newton embarked on his great program, he encountered a fundamental lack of definition where it was most needed. He began… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
I remember one of the first things Helmut Newton on one of his last shoots, in 2004, said was that he couldn't… — Daria Werbowy Copy Share Image
You'll remember Newton was furious at Leibniz, because he developed calculus at the same time. And he went to his death believing… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
'Newton' is a very Indian film. I think, after a long time, people will see an Indian film in its true form.… — Rajkummar Rao Copy Share Image
Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There are certainly lots of jobs in computer coding, but coding doesn't really require advanced mathematics. And engineering jobs, they vary widely… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
I encountered Newton when I was growing up, and it has kind of made me who I am, although I came to… — Kasi Lemmons Copy Share Image
To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nobody since Newton has been able to use geometrical methods to the same extent for the like purposes; and as we read… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Newton supposed that all matter attracted other matter inversely according to the square of the distance; and the hypothesis was found to… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
Much as I venerate the name of Newton, I am not obliged to believe that he was infallible. I see ... with… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The ups and downs of this cosmos may sometimes be acknowledged to be metaphorical ups and downs, but until about Newton's time… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
It's happened many times before. Usually it results in an exceptional and gifted human. Some of the greatest figures in Earth's history… — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light. [added by… — George Polya Copy Share Image
In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by thatWe always try to… — Robert Griffin III Copy Share Image
To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave - that is, a traveling… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The revolution of science that Newton single-handedly achieved in Principia was primarily that the laws of motion and gravity, and the nature… — David Flynn Copy Share Image
You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;"… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
![“Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier , Kepler , Cavalieri , Fermat , Wallis , and Barrow . It was Newton 's good luck to come at a time when everything was ripe for the discovery, and his ability enabled…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e09/anonymous-1_ability_foreshadowings-of-the-principles-and-eve_273197.jpg)
![“Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall to the square of the distance: ... This is the greatest Discovery in Nature that ever was since the World's Creation. It was never so much as hinted by any man before. I…” quote by John Aubrey](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f8e/john-aubrey-29611_creation_mr-hooke-sent-in-his-next-letter-to-sir_2999745.jpg)
![“The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud, clear, piercing cry of 'design!' The result is so unambiguous and so significant that it must be ranked as one of the greatest achievements in the history of science. The…” quote by Michael Behe](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/218/michael-behe-14142_achievement_the-result-of-the-cumulative-efforts-to_3083114.jpg)
![“According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion. Nay, the machine of God's making, so imperfect, according to these…” quote by Gottfried Leibniz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a9d/gottfried-leibniz-3585_almighty_according-to-their-newton-and-his-follow_2699354.png)
![“Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light. [added by Sir John Collings Squire: It did not last: the Devil shouting "Ho. Let Einstein be," restored the status quo] [Aaron Hill's version: O'er Nature's laws God cast the veil of night…” quote by George Polya](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/be8/george-polya-10766_casts_epitaph-on-newton-nature-and-nature-s-la_2908921.png)
