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
“Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was. (Enoch Root observes six-year-old Isaac Newton)” — Neal Stephenson 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
“Here, reader, thou must pardon us if we stop a while to lament the capriciousness of Nature in forming this charming part… — Henry Fielding 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
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
“ Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
“While his school was closed due to an outbreak of plague in 1666–67, twenty-five-year-old Isaac Newton showed his professor, Isaac Barrow, what… — Rolf Dobelli 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
OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy. — Bob Seger 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
Yesterday we celebrated Sir Isaac Newtons discovery of gravity, today, Fabricio Oberto is defying it. — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
“The suspect nature of these stories can be seen in the anecdote Jefferson told of Hamilton visiting his lodging in 1792 and… — Ron Chernow 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
“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. Sir Isaac Newton Imagination is… — Sir Isaac Newton Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that… — John Todd 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
“Billy coughed when the door was opened, and when he coughed he shit thin gruel. This was in accordance with the Third… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Until Sir Isaac Newton wrote down the universal law of gravitation, nobody had any reason to presume that the laws of physics… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Billy coughed when the door was opened, and when he coughed he shit thin gruel. This was in accordance with the Third… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with… — Scott Krig Copy Share Image
Newtonian physics runs into problems at the subatomic level. Down there--in the land of hadrons, quarks, and Schrödinger's cat--things gent freaky. The… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
