If you’ve managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn’t care. But when Newton’s apple fell toward the earth, the earth,… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“Franklin’s scientific achievements placed him in the pantheon with Newton. Franklin’s experiments, he wrote in 1941, “afforded a basis for the explanation… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The great Sir Isaac Newton, He once made a valid proclamation, That the forces equal to a nominated mass, when multiplied by… — Richard Digance Copy Share Image
'Newton' is a very Indian film but resonates with people all across. And that's the reason it got great response at the… — Rajkummar Rao Copy Share Image
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I think it would have been much better if Newton had contemplated how the apple got up there in the first place! — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
“If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. SIR ISAAC NEWTON” — Jon Kabat-Zinn 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
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
I was trying to run something to ground that had come to my attention when I was working on the Baroque Cycle.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what… — Susan Sontag 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
[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
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
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
Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Those whom nature destined to make her disciples have no need of teachers. Bacon , Descartes , Newton — these tutors of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
A successful unification of quantum theory and relativity would necessarily be a theory of the universe as a whole. It would tell… — Lee Smolin 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
In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I… — Louis Agassiz 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
“Mighty men of science and mighty deeds. A Newton who binds the universe together in uniform law; Lagrange, Laplace, Leibnitz with their… — Frederick William Sanderson 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
Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange 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
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
Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics. ... — W. W. Rouse Ball 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
Newton's Third Law of Conversation, if it existed, would hold that every statement implies an equal and opposite statement. To say that… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“Newton, as we have said, was the promoter of a Design Argument based upon the precision and universality of the laws of… — John D. Barrow 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
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
Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence. — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her… — W. H. Auden 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
We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Newton’s third law – the only way humans have ever figured out of getting somewhere is to leave something behind.” — Christopher J. Nolan 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