The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So, I got into the law enforcement game. I worked for an outfit called Newton Detective Agency for a while. I worked… — Clint Walker Copy Share Image
A lot of great thinkers- like Einstein and Newton- come up with their best ideas when they're young because they don't yet… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that… — John Todd Copy Share Image
Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And… — William Blake Copy Share Image
From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Sitting next to Olivia Newton-John, I was like, 'Do not sing one song from Grease.' That's all I was telling my brain… — Caroline Rhea Copy Share Image
It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it… — Bill Gosper Copy Share Image
“What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special. — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early… — Julian Schwinger Copy Share Image
Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Millions saw an apple falling but only Newton asked why; because the apple didnt fall onto his head but into his mind. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
...I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness is observing and asking why. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton asked why.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image