Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time. — Anonymous 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
At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast… — Gustave Le Bon 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
'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
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
"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
In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I… — Louis Agassiz 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
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Those whom nature destined to make her disciples have no need of teachers. Bacon , Descartes , Newton — these tutors of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
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
You have this great big fantasy life, and it looks like a non-stop 24/7 party. But what do you do when you… — Charlie Sheen 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
I love to try to understand first principles and be guided by that. But then, enrich them, because they won't last forever,… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
“From a philosophical point of view, Leibniz's most interesting argument was that absolute space conflicted with what he called the principle of… — Samir Okasha Copy Share Image
From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
When you talk about state of the art, that doesn't mean a damn thing. Think about it. State of the art. "This… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige… — Stefan Collini Copy Share Image
“We hold these truths to be self-evident. { Franklin's edit to the assertion in Thomas Jefferson 's original wording, 'We hold these… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image