To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not… — George Spencer-Brown Copy Share Image
The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity. — Anonymous 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
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem. — Arthur Koestler 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
Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke,… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
“But, if we consider, as physicists now claim, that everything is energy—everything we see, everything we think, everything we do—then it is… — J.K. Franko 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
Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did… — Anonymous 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
For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle… — Alexander Fleming 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
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
[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it. — Hermann Bondi 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
We have to start at ground zero and ask what it means to have a real connection with God and what it… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Newton had a very good description of gravity, back in the day, and then Einstein came along and dug a little bit… — Dallas Campbell Copy Share Image
The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image