For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the… — Anonymous 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
..if a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at… — Oliver Lodge Copy Share Image
The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results.… — Robert Aris Willmott 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
Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics… — Fritjof Capra 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
Although a science fair can seem like a big "pain" it can help you understand important scientific principles, such as Newton's First… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of… — Christopher Hitchens 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
[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so… — Albert Einstein 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
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
“The reason Dick 's physics was so hard for ordinary people to grasp was that he did not use equations. The usual… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss. — Claude Levi-Strauss 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
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
The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised… — Matthew Arnold 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
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