When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
A lot of secular, modern people claim to be disillusioned whenever they learn that any smart person is religious. That's applicable to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred]… — Leonard Nimoy 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
In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians. — John Maynard Keynes 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
Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
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
The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child… — Lucio Russo 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
Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
A priori one should expect a chaotic world which cannot be grasped by the mind in any way... The kind of order… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse. — Merv Griffin Copy Share Image
Newton did not know what happened to the apple, and I can prove this when the next eclipse comes. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Newton's theory is not 'not right', it just does not cover all distances. Contrary to popular belief, theories in science are not… — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint!… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
When the film stock disappears, the matter - because movies are matter - (disappears). The laws of this have been established by… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
