Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. :D — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the… — David Bentley Hart 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
Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've… — Michael Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
I imagine if you had built the Newton Memorial outside Paris ... it would have undoubtedly shown the violence of 1870 and… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do,… — Criss Angel 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
“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.… — Thomas Henry Huxley 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
All it takes is a small change in Newton's laws, or the rules of atomic physics, and poof - life would either… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
Because, ten-year-olds of the world, you shouldn't believe what your teachers tell you about the beauty and specialness and uniqueness of you.… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
There's a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics...Man has… — Anonymous 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
Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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
